Now Music CDs are designed not to work on bloody PCs and Macs! (so that people can’t copy them for WinMX and Grokster) I only have a fucking PC to play it on Guys! So I promptly GOT MY MONEY BACK and will now TROT OVER TO WINMX and get the whole thing from there. Because NATURALY, the guys who copy the stuff are cleverer than you corporate dickheads and have managed to copy the stuff anyway (I checked)
So not only has their policy pissed me (and lots of PC based music listeners with the decency to buy the music rather than download it) off, but it hasn’t done the job it was intended for.
Complete clusterfuck if you ask me. You are making people who were going to pay for your music anyway go and get it free. so your ‘policy’ Is having the complete fucking opposite effect!
And another thing (irrelevant as usual) My brilliantly witty and intelligent reply to a ‘Microsoft MVP’ who said something stupid won’t upload to the newsgroup!
Amazing, isn’t it, that they would do something like this which just drives even more people to downloading pirated music for free?
Everytime I hear about a new invasively irritating “miracle” copy protection, I put its name +crack into Yahoo! - and you can guarantee that every time someone has already cracked it, even before its public release. It just fuels my opinion that record companies are arrogant to the point of stupidity, blind, behind-the-times, and blinkered.
Haven’t these people noticed the increasing popularity of tiny cute mp3 players over big bulky skipping CD walkmans?
Hasn’t it registered with them that every single method they have tried has failed and been cracked?
[disclaimed]I am not advocating illegal CD hacking. I’ve never tried it myself, never needed to as I don’t buy copyright-protected CDs.[/disclaimer]
I just have to laugh at the number of Pit threads devoted to companies refusing to let us give them our money. My rant is about George Lucas refusing to put out the original SW trilogy on DVD, cuz he’s “too busy.” George, here’s a hint, transfer the movie to DVD, slap some art on top and sell it for $30. Some of us just want to see your damn movie in a nice format, instead of VHS, and not wait 3 years for it.
Guess I’ll be looking for a Malaysian import, or some such thing…
Coldfire: Just out of curiosity, since you’d have to own the CD to make a copy of it, does it really count as a pirating technique? I can understand the issues involved with DVDs, but I don’t know of any places that rent CDs in a similar fashion.
I’m sure there are places that rent CD’s, but that’s not the point: more importantly, if one owns the CD, which probability is greater: [ul][]the subject trying to crack the protection to play the CD on his only CD player, which happens to be his computer, or:[]the subject trying to crack the code in order to make and sell illegal copies?[/ul]And regardless of which probability would be greater, we still have to account for option #2. Hence, no links or explanations regarding these techniques, please. AAArrrrrghhh.
No, it shouldn’t count as piracy, but it’s a crime under the DMCA. What fun, eh? See the Sklyarov/Adobe eBooks case? Here was a man who wrote software which read legitimately bought eBooks to the blind. To access the text he had to break the copy protection (which he reimplemented, incidentally). Had he not struck a deal with prosecutors he could have faced 25 (count em) years in jail. For allowing blind people to enjoy books. Fuck.
HA! Like anyone is gonna wanna burn a copy of that! The only people that would even BUY that CD still think of computers as filling whole rooms and running on vacume tubes and punch cards…
When they upgraded our computer systems at work a few years ago, the new computers they distributed came with CD-ROM drives. We were told this was because at some time in the indefinite future they were considering having training materials available on CD-ROM, but in the meantime there was no problem if we wanted use them to listen to music CD’s as long as we used headphones.
Generally this works out pretty good, but every so often when I try to play one of those “enhanced” CD’s (with interviews, music videos, etc) it won’t play the music because my computer doesn’t have QuickTime or some other specialized program. For security reasons our systems are set up so I can’t install these on my computer, so I’m SOL if I want to listen to these at work, unless I bring in a portable CD player.
I recently bought a new home system with a DVD player & CD-RW drive and when I get some free time (HA!) I was thinking of trying to copy the music from some of these onto a CD that I could play at work. From the OP, I get the idea that this may now be only wishful thinking on my part. DAMN.
The same mentatily that keeps the drug war alive. Drug users don’t support terrorism, the drug war does.
Please, record companies, drive more and more people to hate you! That’s gonna save you money! No, really! Hell, most of the music industry already hates you, so what else is left but us regular folk who have spent millions of dollars on your releases, which most musicians never see!
Typical. And it’s just going to keep getting worse and worse. When they see it’s not having an effect, they’ll just add more and more invasive and irritating techniques to copy protect their damn music. But, hey, they put a warning sticker on the label, so it’s not THEIR fault they just fucked up your computer…
I have heard that computer DVD-ROM drives are immune to Audio-CD copy protection, based on something technical which I do not understand. Thus, if you own a DVD drive, you may not have much to worry about.
Also, IMHO, the legitimate interests in copying CDs are many. I rip all the CDs I own to MP3, so I don’t have to go digging up the CD whenever I want to listen to it. If I owned a portable MP3 or minidisk player, that would be another reason to copy.
