Comments | andrew_j_w: Copy Protection Woes

andrew_j_w

Copy Protection Woes

Jun 04, 2005 12:54

The new Coldplay album, X&Y, arrived this morning - but none of the three cd-rom drives I've tried it in can play it! Damn copy protection! Looks like it's time for a bittorrent search...

*Andrew Smash!*

Update: With a bit of persuading one of the three cd-rom drives did read the cd, and although cdparanoia said there were errors it seems to have ( Read more... )

music, rant

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beelsebob June 4 2005, 12:05:18 UTC

Find Greg... I've not found a CD that iTunes can't decode yet.

Bob

andrew_j_w June 4 2005, 12:15:35 UTC

My CD drive just says "No disc inserted" so it's not a question of the software.

beelsebob June 4 2005, 12:21:05 UTC

Sorry *makes self clearer* - iTunes on a mac... I've never been able to get a disk that didn't show or didn't rip. Not saying it can't happen - just previous experience says it's unlikely.

Btw... If you can't rip it, send it back to the record company and demand they send you a real CD.

Bob

andrew_j_w June 4 2005, 12:27:50 UTC

Interestingly this is first cd I've noticed that does not have any 'CD' logo on it. While it doesn't mention on the case or the sleeve that it has crippling DRM on it neither does it claim it's a valid cd...

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nmitchell June 4 2005, 12:12:42 UTC

Have you tried Nero and ripping it using that? It typically gets all but the first track when hard core copy protection is involved - but you have to go to the advanced view and select which tracks to rip.

andrew_j_w June 4 2005, 12:16:36 UTC

My cd drive doesn't even realise there has been a disc inserted so I don't think Nero would be much use.

nmitchell June 4 2005, 12:18:33 UTC

Hmm, it might... Nero has its own hardware interface routines, a lot lower level than any other program, and its a lot more tollerant of complete breaches of the CD standard. It can often get things off that Windows doesn't even realise are there.

rob2081 June 5 2005, 11:51:59 UTC

...That or something like CloneCD should do the job. I remember seeing a site that listed what discs were using which copy protection system, what those systems did and how to get round them.

They can't use the CD logo, as by messing around with things like the TOC track and screwing around with the error correction to try and stop the CD playing in all but dumb CD players that don't really get too concerned about that kind of thing, they're actually not producing a disk that meets the red book (yes, it is red :) specification for an audio CD.

Its daft really, as all they do by using these silly 'copy protection' is reduce the damage resiliance of the disk and piss a lot of people off in the process. And if someone WANTS to rip the disc, they still will; it'll just take them 10 minutes longer.

scaryjeff June 4 2005, 15:05:50 UTC

woo to .ogg! :)