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When Copy Protection Fails

Posted by timothy on from the nothing-can-go-wrong dept.

StArSkY writes "The Age in Australia has an article today explaining the experiences of a Melbourne guy who purchased the Norah Jones CD tht is 'copy protected.' Unfortunately the only way he could listen to the CD on Apple computers or Intel computers running XP was to copy the CD. This sort of defeats the purpose of the copy protection in the first place. Serious yet amusing at the same time."

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  1. Before long... by lalonso · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eventually they'll resort to shipping blank CDs to thwart copying, and expect you to just stare at the pretty CD jacket while pretending you're listening to it...

  2. Been there, done that by Jusii · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bought a copy protected CD, which was from EMI. Couldn't listen to it so I made a copy for myself. Then I mailed the original CD back to EMI with note saying what I had to do just to listen the CD and here's the original back, I won't need it, my 20 euros for fighting piracy.

  3. Re:He copied a cd? by arvindn · · Score: 5, Funny

    As an apology for the inconvenience caused by being unable to play the CD, he'll be getting a Norah Jones T-shirt and DVD. However, for making an unauthorized copy of the CD, he'll be sued for $97 trillion.

  4. Re:I�ve said it before, and I�ll say it again by Jusii · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those music disks are not 'copy protected', they are 'playback crippled'

    I call them 'listening protected'

  5. Shameful! by $$$exy+Gwen+Araujo · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. You didn't realise that cdparanoia takes a parameter telling it which tracks to rip (e.g. "cdparanoia 2-" for track 2 to last track). This is explained in the first few lines of the manual. So you rummaged around the raw source code of cdparanoia and changed it before you looked at its manual.
    2. You used diff without the -U option, and didn't even tell us which file you commented out the exit() in. Which file is it? What's the context?
    3. You used a C++/C99 comment delimiter in what is a C89 source code. Hope you have have a lax compiler that defaults to C99 or ignores standards, because it'll choke on that.
    4. You made a web-page about it and posted it on Slashdot, no doubt causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth from people even less experienced at editing source code than you, when all they needed to do was run the cdparanoia command differently.

      But far, far worse than any of those crimes....

    5. You bought an Avril Lavigne CD! Dude, how could you?
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  6. Re:Australian Copyright Law by gboronat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't most of the population of Australia end up there becuase of doing more than 3 months jail time?