Copyprotection

Blackhole73 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:35 am

Oh god, I hate this copyprotection thing on cds.... I ALWAYS BUY my cds.... and that's true. But I want to burn my own favourite cd for personal use from different cds. I'm MAD... AAAARRRGGGHHH!!! Evil or Very Mad

What's your opininions????

((-&E-)) · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:02 am

i dont see point in it personally...

all you have to do is connect your Hi-Fi to you pc and record it that way via the line in.. quality may not be CD quality (320kbps) but its definatly mp3 quality (160/192 birate)

and then if you got an optical connection.. which in a couple of years everyone will have then you'll be able to keep the quality.. !!!

..lets face it, mp3s will never die.. no matter what they do... Rolling Eyes

Blackhole73 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:05 am

What if you want to keep it the old way then??? Copyprotection is evil... but a minority destroys everything for the big majority.... AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!

Spherix · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:47 pm

You know what I think? I think that the record companies are money horny shitheads who not care about quality music.. they just want more and more money.. I read some minutes ago about a 12 year old little girl that got suid by a record company and that's just f**king unbelivable Rolling Eyes

It's like this.. years ago were the record companies complaining about the casettes.. that the ppl recorded the songs from the radio etc.. and now it's mp3.. Yeah I buy cd's and vinyls but I still think that MOST of the record companies just cares about money and not the music..

Stream · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:40 pm

i agree with Spherix....read about that little girl too...and a 71 year old man was also accused of spreading mp3s....seems the RIAA have caught the big dogs now....bah Evil or Very Mad

anyway....in the usa they have measured that fewer people download mp3's now than a few months a go....at the same time the record sales have dropped even further...

it's about time the money-thinking music-industry realize they have to do something constructive to sell more records again...like selling GOOD music at a LOWER price...instead of all shit-music that you find in the stores now...

QbIx · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:48 pm

I've never come across a copyprotected CD so ive never had any problem with them but on the principle of it I don't think they should

J00F · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:28 pm

Whats the point? as long as sound comes out of speakers copyprotection will not work.

White_Lightning · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:10 am

their just greedy b@stards....i never buy cds anymore cos their 2 expensive and im just a poor student...its either 15-18quid on a cd or a night out?? and drink wins every time

davehart · **Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:32 am

I sometimes like to take a cdr copy of my cd out and about, keep the original in mint condition. The copy protection may be good for PC base cd burning, but using a Hi-Fi system with a cd recorder you can get round that.

With every path bloke there is always another one cleared. UK release I've noticed dont have the CD protection that most of the CD's I get imported do tho I've noticed.

Philby · **Posted:** Thu Sep 18, 2003 7:59 am

i've never had a copyrighted cd before, but some of them you can get around by writing on the edge with a texta hehe. they try and fool your cd drive in the computer by putting a very small data track at the end of the cd, so the drive reads that and doesn't know its an audio cd.

i think its crap cause like others have said you might want to copy your cds and leave the originals, like to use in your car for example.

but whenever a new copy protection scheme comes along it doesn't take long for people to find a way around it. i also remember reading about someone getting sued for printing a t-shirt that had the 3 lines of code or so that you needed to get past a very expensive and brand new copy protection hehe Smile

Trancemaster · **Posted:** Thu Sep 18, 2003 8:37 am

But the worste thing about this fucking shitt is that you cant play it in every cdplayer. I have got a cd / mp3 player walkman and it cant read from cds that is protected

Not either my dvd player cant read this. I have to take a old shitty player that is not digital (its near analog) to be able to read from the cds.

Now ive found some programs that Ive installed on my computer so I can copy the cds and remove the protection.

This is not pleased by anyone!

Ami · **Posted:** Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:50 pm

hmm, i got a few copyprotected cds,
cactus data shield 200 & crap

never had a problem with them so, far cd drive makes perfect backup copies with EAC, so fat *fingers crossed*
never had to resort to the marker or post it note trick yet,

actuallly theres a new law being passed in germany and some other european countires, that makes it illegal for any programs or other measures to circumvent any protection, aka dmca for europe. i think it even outlaws backups for personal use, even if you have the original media

davehart · **Posted:** Fri Sep 19, 2003 1:15 am

Glad I dont live in germany then otherwise I'd have the long arm of the law round me gaff areesting me for things I've already paid for.

Thats law is taking things a bit over the top to be fair.

Stream · **Posted:** Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:41 am

Ami · **Posted:** Fri Sep 19, 2003 9:46 am