Copywrited cd's

I agree, this is disturbing, what if the trend continues?
How would you go about making a boycott online?

No problem! Search google for "CloneCD" this thing copies all present CD-protection schemes. If it doesn''t copy this one, wait couple of months for a new version.

What''s the big deal - so you can''t steal music anymore. They need to get the bugs out so that the CD will play in a all players - but as a musician myself with a few CDs to my name, the less people who can steal my work - the better.

If I want to release my CD for free, then I should be able to - but John Doe should not be able to copy my work. Cds usually take a good year or so for a musician to make, from writing down to post production and usually cost upwards of a few thousand - depending on how good of production you do. (My last CD cost the band over 10,000 to cut and produce).

Most musicians are struggling to survive - don''t steal from them. How would you like it if someone took a game that you made and were trying to sell (to make a living off of) and made illegal copies of it and gave them away for free?

Roach

So the only possible purpose for recording a CD''s tracks to MP3 or OGG is to steal them? LOL...

What if people want to be able to leave their CDs at home and listen to them on their MP3 player?

If they want to stop people from "stealing" music, they should go after the big-time pirates and stop worrying about the people who post tracks on the Internet via P2P.

Also, from what I''ve heard, all this "copy protection" scheme does is introduce non-audio into the normal audio tracks. Normal CD players should interpolate over this, not noticing... But someone could simply rip the entire disc to a hard drive, then run a software filter to remove all of the crap. Then there''s the whole analog Line-Out to Line-In thing...

Agent1:
The thing is, you can''t rip the entire CD. The CD players in our computers will be confused by these Cd''s when not simply streaming music. Streaming music uses a different protocol(i believe), so that weird errors (like a big scratch on the disc) can be somewhat ignored, and continue playing. Unless you had special hardware, I doubt you could copy them the way you''re saying.

If you just do a bit-by-bit copy of the disc, sure you can do that. But if you just try to copy it like a normal CD, you probably won''t be able to.

As long as they play on CD players it is still possible to get it onto the computer, you can connect the line out to the sound card''s line in and use sound recorder to get the MP3s you want.

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Original post by furby100
As long as they play on CD players it is still possible to get it onto the computer, you can connect the line out to the sound card''s line in and use sound recorder to get the MP3s you want.

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I''ve heard this answered by some representative of some music company. They said they''re more concerned with stopping digital (exact) copying of music. Which doesn''t really make sense, because by the time it gets to some 128bps mp3 it''s pretty far from an exact copy.

I''m on the fence about the whole thing. I''m really unsure of all these ''stats'' the music industry is pumping out. Almost any stat that doesn''t mean something can be put in a context which makes it sound significant. Wow! 123%! The music industry must be losing billions!

The retarded thing about copyprotected CD''s is that you can''t even play them on most CD players... Good thinking, Universal!

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