for those of you who want to pay full price for some crappy sony music CD's and still wanna play em in your PC: http://www.guru3d.com/cgi-bin/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1021480475,16352,
to me the answer isn't to work around this crap, it is to absolutely not buy it. If enough people mark their music discs (purposely did not use the term CD because technically these aren't) they will come up with a different lock solution. If people respond by not buying the product... they will stop it, go back to traditional CD format and settle for only making $20 billion instead of $22 billion. Don't get me wrong, these people are creating something and should get paid for it. What I don't like are their tactics and lockdowns... they are not ever going to be as innovative as all the technoweenies out there. What the music industry doesn't understand, IMHO, is that mp3's sell CD's. I usually get a MP3 to see if I like a band, if I am actually listen to them on a regular basis, I always like to have an actual disc. Maybe I should have put this in the RANT thread...
I wholeheartedly agree. However, if a person buys such a protected CD (since many/most/some aren't marked), they could use this method to still use it. Of course, I'm going out on a limb and assuming that stores will not accept returns, only exchanges. I personally think it should be required that they have a big "Not allowed for fair use" sticker on them. Kind of like the Parental warning stickers or whatever they are.
I agree, but, if everytime you went up to the counter of your favorite music store with a handful of cds and before purchasing ask "are any of these those crappy new protected discs? I don't want this $15 J to the L O to ruin my $1600 mac?" even if you know how to recongnize the discs and you don't have a mac. The store owners will eventually tell the suppliers not to bother bringing in anymore of that format. Music store people are very lazy people... I know, I used to be one... Companies like Sony get away with this crap because people just suck it up... but other times... the weirdest things set people off and companies have to respond, this better be one of them.
i think they should be made to be a different shape (so they don't look like cds), should be banned from using jewel cases and should be put on display in a totally different section of the store! probably signed as "****ed up faux CDs that don't work"
yeah, but chances are my question won't get beyond the clerk who probably doesn't care. I suppose I could wait around until I could speak with a manager, but I'm a very impatient person. I'll give it a try next time I buy (just bought Sheryl Crow and Rush CD's, so will be a whle) and see how irritated i get . I'd consider buying from a mom & pop type store where my "voice" might be heard, but I refuse to pay $18 for a CD. I like Alaric's idea too
I hope Phillips decide to ban all the record companies from using the Compact Disc name and logo for all these copy protected CDs. Another of their plans is to shove a skull and crossbones piccy on the cover... to warn people off.
from this point on all philips hifi recorders wil be able to copy protected discs, i actually think that we sould be making a stand, my theory is if the music industry want to play like that as my cd player is a dvd player & that refused to run the natalie imbuglia cd i will jsut go downstairs, get the cd player from there use a very high quality pair of phono outs & record it onto minidisc as i read somewere it would not allow you to do digital copys
Well, I bought the Episode 2 soundtrack that was protected...I wanged it in my PC, fired up Media Player, and it played fine. Loaded up my MP3 ripper, ripped perfectly. Copy protection, what copy protection?
theres another way to get paste the protection, stick it in your dvdplayer, stereo or whatever => wire it to line in of comp, record it as mp3, and ur done
