Anatomy of Cactus Data Shield

meehawl writes: "This is a good analysis by CDRInfo on the current version of Midbar's Cactus Data Shield. This is the format Universal will use to protect its new audio CDs. It's been reported here already that some DVDs effectively bypass this protection, but this article addresses the specific concerns of how best to backup these protected CDs, and how to extract the music data at high quality for download to a personal MP3 listening device."

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"backup" audio CDs for "personal" use?

[tenzig_112]

"...but this article addresses the specific concerns of how best to backup these protected CDs, and how to extract the music data at high quality for download to a personal MP3 listening device."

Does anyone really believe that music consumers "backup" thier discs to mp3 for purely "personal" use? Let's at least be adult enough not to sugar coat this: we want to get around Cactus Data Shield because we want to "share" [or steal] music.

Make your argument based on non-profit-based music sharing [we're spreading the music around and not making any money at it], not on some obviously disingenuous use of the language.

If it isn't stealing, and people really do enjoy the convenience and portability of technologies like mp3, no one is going to listen until the user community grows up enough to level with itself.

If the music industry is going to pull its collective head out of its collective cornhole, we're the only ones who can do the pulling.