Go, Philips!
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Plastic.com has a thread on how Philips is making noises about releasing a CD player that circumvents copy protection:
Philips Lobs Grenade Into RIAA’s Copy-Protected CD Plans
I’m all for it. I don’t condone stealing people’s work (I’ve had people rip off my work and it sucks big eggs) but this sort of copy protection is just plain wrong.
Case in point: last year a friend played me Global a Go Go by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros (from the aptly named Hellcat/Epitaph labels). I liked it. I bought it. I put it in my Mac but it wouldn’t play (likewise on my wife’s Mac and my daughter’s Mac). After confirming that other CDs played just fine, it dawned on me that I might be a victim of copy protection.
I took the CD into the living room and tried to play it on the CD player there (a regular ol’ CD player) and while it at least started to play, it skipped all over the place. Unlistenable even on a regular player. I then tried it on the Teac player in my study and found that it would play correctly there.
Keep in mind that at this point I’m looking at a 20% playability rate, having tested the disc on 5 players!
The next step was inevitable: I run a line out from the Teac, plug it into the line-in jack of my PowerBook and rip the damn thing to mp3 in real time so I can get it on my iPod. Copy protection my arse.
Caveat emptor, I guess. This page has some good info on the evils of this scheme, as well as a list of ‘corrupt’ CDs.
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Posted to General Rants • 2002.01.19 (Sat) • 23:22
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Posted by Terry 2002.01.20, 04:03
Hey Mr H. Welcome back!
Posted by jh 2002.01.20, 21:52
And a big welcome back to you, too. All the best for ‘02, Terry.
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