[jopi]

It probably happened already to most of you, but I'm really angry.
My mother send me a CD from good old Germany across the Atlantic and I can't rip it to my iPod.

Adding insult to injury, when you put it into your harddrive, a small player application starts and plays the CD in 48 bps mp3! The execs at Warner probably think that that is a cool thing.

Well, big boys, I'm 33 and far from being a software pirate. I've got more than 500 CDs at home all legally purchased and I'm not gonna have your ****!

One more reason to stick with vinyl.

Guys, please let me know what other labels have started copy protection so I can boycott them.

 

[msjjr]

Apparently the newer Plextor drives can defeat the copy protection from what I've read. I have one, but I haven't come across a protected disc yet to try it out. Also, supposedly if you use a black marker like a Sharpie and cover up the first track, that is a data track and not a music track, you can then rip the CD. Can anyone confirm my suggestions?

 

[gloco]

Quote:

Originally posted by msjjr Also, supposedly if you use a black marker like a Sharpie and cover up the first track, that is a data track and not a music track, you can then rip the CD. Can anyone confirm my suggestions?

I've read about it many times...jopi, try running some searches regarding this, maybe you'll get lucky.

 

[dokebi]

Try CloneCD. I used it to rip a copy protected cd.

 

[Trawlerman]

I believe there is a website that has a list of Copy-protected CDs.

Does anybody have an address?





Sound As Ever

 

[grinch]

i hear that the ability to read copy-righted cds is almost 99% hardware related. i've never run into the problem though, but i have 3 different cd-possible-readers in my computer so i have a few to try if i ever do have a problem.

i bet that marker trick works fine, but i'd use a dry erase one so that you can remove it later or your cd isn't toasted if you mess up the line.

 

[miroslav]

I have couple of fine sounding CD-R copies of copy-protected CDs, so there must be a solution. And I think that the music industry is obliged to cleraly mark copy-protected CDs. You just have to check the CD cover carefully when buying.

read this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1930923.stm

good luck

 

[Subsonic]

Are you guys talking about that etching on the outer cd that looks like a ring? If so, I've been able to extract and encode the audio with both my Toshiba DVD drive and my Plexter burner. Hmm...strange.

 

[Squalish]

The solution to copy protection on CDs is not boycott, but returns, exchanges, and anger. If there is a 50% return rate on a certain CD, with people saying that it doesn't work and demanding their money back, the retail side will think twice before it carries more copy-protected CDs. By the way, many of the copyright protection measures technically carry this away from the Red Book standard. If it isn't red book, they aren't supposed to be allowed to use the label "CD," I believe.

Jopi: Europe seems to be leading the copy protection effort in terms of what they dare to sell. This opinion is totally uninformed, but I think that there are more consumer-protection laws over here, in addition to the fact that even the freakishly extreme DCMA(The reason that we have to fight measures like the SSSCA instead of dismissing them as ridiculous is that they were successful in buying the DCMA, something noone thought had a chance) allows for fair use, including making backups for personal use and making the music playable in all formats that we use.

 

[eighteen_psi]

CD Copy protection runs and hides when the disc goes in either of my plextors...get one

But copy protecting cds is BS in so many ways..I'm glad I have yet to find a cd (or dvd for that matter sincd DECSS is oficially legal now) I can't copy. My originals sit at home. CDs tend to get beaten to a pulp in my car, on the road etc over time...

 

[00940]

http://www.fatchucks.com/

 

[Zanth]

Plextor is definitely the way to go. I put in a copied protected CD, proceed to back it up in whatever format I so desire and I get a nice announcement: This CD is copywrited and is protected blah blah blah...


then I press the burn button.

Heh, Plextor is simply awesome, in the truest sense of the word.

 

[PodMan]

As dokebi mentioned, CloneCD definitely works in defeating the copy protection (at least for the cds I've ran into). There is no excuse for me not to be able to rip a cd that I bought into my ipod. Only problem is clonecd doesn't do the advanced error correction that EAC does, though for new scratch-free cds I'm sure its not that big a problem.

 

[eighteen_psi]

Heres what we'll do...anyone in the bay area unable to copy a cd? Email me...we'll set something up and I'll rip it for you. Thats how lame I think this crap is.

 

[TimSchirmer]

I like to take it a step further, and boycott anything involved with the RIAA.

Here is a list of RIAA members, these are the labels who support copy protection...

http://www.riaa.org/About-Members-1.cfm

Come to think of it, I think I will post this in the member's section and perhaps audio asylum. I keep this list handy whenever I go shopping for new music. The only way to stop them is to put your money where your mouth is.