Copy Protected...

[Dookas27018]

I havn't bought 'In A Coma' yet cuz I wanted to be sure it was not copyprotected and I could import both cds into iTunes, is it copyprotected? I'm hesitant to buy cds over the internet now, I got fucked over last week with the new David Gray album.

[Mouko]

No, it's not.

 

BUT THE RIAA ARE WATCHING YOU.

[worldofnoise]

I've found that iTunes is pretty lenient on the copy protection. I haven't met a copy-protected cd yet that it didn't import first go. But, whatever you do don't install the 'player' that comes on the copy protected cds.

[saturnine]

actually, RIAA isn't watching us... their boundaries end at the 49th parallel

[static]

I know how you feel. I got two copies of Radiohead's Hail to the Theif last year, and was pissed off that i had to return both of them because (being copyprotected) wouldnt play on my cd walkman (which is where i would primarily listen to it.)

[radio_bomb]

Copy protection doesn't matter. If you have a copy-controlled cd and want to load it in to itunes or whatever just hold down the shift key when you put it in the drive and hold it there. It overrides the copy protection. It has worked everytime for me.

[Dookas27018]

holy shit, good deal man, i tried it and it worked with the david gray cd

[Doc]

Yeah, I haven't had any trouble importing both Coldplay's X&Y and In Your Honour by Foo Fighters. I think there were a couple others in there as well, but those stuck out in my mind for some reason....

 

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[Mouko]

You just need to stop it autorunning, and then you can override pretty much any copy protection.

[Jarrod]

I've found that iTunes is pretty lenient on the copy protection. I haven't met a copy-protected cd yet that it didn't import first go. But, whatever you do don't install the 'player' that comes on the copy protected cds.

i've only encountered one and that was a perfect circle thirteenth step...

[worldofnoise]

I've found that iTunes is pretty lenient on the copy protection. I haven't met a copy-protected cd yet that it didn't import first go. But, whatever you do don't install the 'player' that comes on the copy protected cds.

i've only encountered one and that was a perfect circle thirteenth step...

I don't have thirteenth step, but I do have eMotive and that imported fine.

[Crusader]

Thirteenth step had its own damn player on the PC. Just close it and use Winamp.

[RicardoObviouso]

coldplay's x&y is supposedly copy-protected but my escient fireball had no problem copying it or downloading the album info.

 

i think those warnings are more to scare people than anything. i remember way back in the day when limp bizkit albums were copy protected my buddy had it figured out within 20 minutes.

Edited September 23, 2005 by one_trick_pony

[uglyredhonda]

The key is having autorun disabled. It's enabled by default, and the autorun portion installs the software.

 

Most copy protection formats only affect Windows users. (I somehow doubt the Escient Fireball runs Windows.)

 

It's not actual copy protection like on a DVD. The CD format cannot be copy protected within the format itself. What they're doing is using CD-ROM tricks to act like copy protection. It depends on the type of "protection" as to what it does: one kind installs the copy protection drivers, another confuses the system with bogus CD-ROM data so that the device believes the disc is invalid.

 

The problem is that some CD players don't know what to do with the CD-ROM data, so some CD players won't play the discs at all. And that sucks for people who might only have one CD player to listen to music on.

 

Frankly, I think it's stupid. Record companies are penalizing the people who ACTUALLY BUY CDS. It seems like it will only push people toward illegal downloads.

 

As silly as it might sound, I'm boycotting copy-protected discs. I don't even bother to download them. Too much good music out there to worry about the few handful that are copy protected. I just cross them off the list and move on to the next one.

[allhailskippy]

I know how you feel. I got two copies of Radiohead's Hail to the Theif last year, and was pissed off that i had to return both of them because (being copyprotected) wouldnt play on my cd walkman (which is where i would primarily listen to it.)

That cd was insane to rip to mp3. I tried a bunch of programs before I found one that would rip it for me. I forget which one eventually did it (might have been exact audio copy), but I was a happy guy when it finally worked.

 

Copy protection has it's place, but when you actually own the cd, and simply want to listen to it in your playlist with other albums, it can be very irritating.

[Dan #3]

Thirteenth step had its own damn player on the PC. Just close it and use Winamp.

That thing's also on "To The Five Boroughs" by The Beastie Boys. It never fails to put in a rage against my machine.

[saturnine]

just rip it to the hard drive and never have the problem again

[worldofnoise]

I know how you feel. I got two copies of Radiohead's Hail to the Theif last year, and was pissed off that i had to return both of them because (being copyprotected) wouldnt play on my cd walkman (which is where i would primarily listen to it.)

That cd was insane to rip to mp3. I tried a bunch of programs before I found one that would rip it for me. I forget which one eventually did it (might have been exact audio copy), but I was a happy guy when it finally worked.

 

Copy protection has it's place, but when you actually own the cd, and simply want to listen to it in your playlist with other albums, it can be very irritating.

Not to mention those of us with .mp3 players and whatnot. All the cds that I have in my car are copies. So I don't worry about them, nothing worse than getting a cd wallet full of originals stolen.

[saturnine]

i've never had a problem ripping copy-protected cds to my computer.. actually, i wondered what the copy-protection did because it was so easy.

[NationofCool]

i've never had a problem ripping copy-protected cds to my computer.. actually, i wondered what the copy-protection did because it was so easy.

haha i was thinking the exact same thing.

a bunch of cds say copy controlled..

but none of them have ever prohibited me from copying to my hard drive..