Copy-Protected CD to Be Released

The Los Angeles Times ^ | December 17, 2001 | By JON HEALEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER

[StoneColdGOP]

In a first for the United States, a major record company plans Tuesday to release a CD that's been encrypted to stop digital copying.

Universal Music Group's CD--"More Fast and Furious," a movie soundtrack aimed at a young male audience--will be protected by anti-piracy software from an Israeli company, Midbar Tech Ltd.

[StoneColdGOP]

Click source link for the entirety of the article.

By the way, I don't anticipate Universal selling many of "More Fast and Furious", probably they planned it that way to check out the response to the new cd technology.

[wideawake]

anti-piracy software from an Israeli company, Midbar Tech Ltd

This proves it! The Mossad knew all about 9/11 ahead of time!

[Ratatoskr]

You plug yer CD output into yer soundcard input, and rip them MP3's. They really shouldn't try to out-geek the geeks.

[veronica]

Somebody call Carl Cameron - QUICK!!

[Smogger]

Whoohoo! I will try to go and download it right now.. har har

[Kozak]

Get a burner that reads in "Raw" mode. Get Clone -Cd. No problem. Now I do not advocate ripping off people. BUT I want to be able to make a copy for my own use so that I can protect the original CD, and not have to pay over and over for the same item.

[dead]

I make lots of compilations from my legally purchased collection of 1,600 or so CDs. I don't sell them.

I will never buy a copy-protected CD.

[damnlimey]

There's also a freeware prog out there called "PSX2 copy"
which has little or no respect for any copyright protection.

[July 4th]

Headline, December 19: New Copy-Protected CD Cracked

Unless there's some hardware arrangement that's preventing the reading of the CD (like copied Playstation games before the hardware mod), there's nothing stopping someone from copying it. There is software out there that will most likely already do it, and if not, there will be pretty soon. What a waste of brainpower coming up with this new copy protection scheme.

[doomtrooper99]

Here is how to copy such an album

1-get MusicMatch, a free download

2-get a cable that will allow you to connect your CD player to Line-In on your sound card and connect the two. If your CD plyayer has line in jack, use that. If not, use the phone jack.

3-Select "Line In" as the recordng source from Options-Settings-Recorder Menu item in MusicMatch

4-Turn the volume on the CD player ALL THE WAY DOWN, turn the player on, slowly increase the volume. If you dont hear the music, double click on the little speaker icon in the system tray, the one on the right hand side on the task bar. You might have to unmute the line in or enable it in the first place from the Options menu

5-Start recording by pressing record button on the MusicMatch panel. You will have to enter the artists name, the album name and the track name before recording each track.

[Dog Gone]

That does it. Declare war on Israel now.

[livius]

There was a very good article this morning in - of all places - the Wall Street Journal, regarding copy protected MP3 files and CDs. Their solution: refuse to buy them. Nobody should be able to "sell" you a CD/MP3 file that not only can't be copied, but can only be played on certain machines, or played only a certain number of times, etc., etc.

Time for music consumers to just say NO!

[SamAdams76]

Don't be looking for any of these "copy-protected" CDs to be cracking the Billboard 200 anytime soon. Nobody's going to buy them. Certainly not I.

I don't mind buying CDs but I plan to burn them onto blank CDs to make my own compilations that I can play in the car and while walking, etc. I also rip MP3s with them for my MP3 player or just to play off the computer without having to put the disc in the CD tray. If I can't do any of that stuff, why I'll just download the songs off WinMX or some other file-sharing service (of which there are many).

[July 4th]

Time for music consumers to just say NO!

What peeves me even more is the Region coding on DVDs. If I buy a DVD in England and want to play it on a US machine, I can't. Why was this a good idea??

Oh well, no problem...that's been hacked too. Many of the Chinese DVD players can be made "region-free" with minimal effort.

[Poohbah]

IIRC, it's because that different sovereign nations have different copyright laws. (So that Chinese DVD player not only funds the People's Liberation Army, it promotes the globalist New World Order!)

[PatrioticAmerican]

Easy, from the line out plug to the line in plug....copy protection defeated.

[the]

I guess the whole DIVX debacle didn't teach them anything.

When people buy a copy of something, they expect to own
that copy free and clear.

[StoneColdGOP]

I can't think of any artist on a Universal affiliate label that I just HAVE to have a CD of, so this doesn't particularly bum me out.