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New Anti-Swap CDs Hit Shelves

Posted by timothy on from the who-is-anthony-hamilton dept.

floppy ears writes "Watch out for the new Anthony Hamilton CD, Coming From Where I'm From. The CD has two sets of tracks: one set of "encrypted" songs that can be handled by CD players but cannot be ripped, and a duplicate set of tracks in WMA format. In CD players, the disc plays normally (in theory). When put into a computer, the disc installs software to keep the music secure, but allows you to copy some or all of the Windows Media tracks to your hard drive. What a shame that I'm running Linux and my portable MP3 player doesn't support WMA."

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  1. Crack by Gudeldar · · Score: 3, Funny

    So how many hours do you think it takes for this to be cracked 2-3 hours?

    1. Re:Crack by harley_frog · · Score: 5, Funny
      So how many hours do you think it takes for this to be cracked 2-3 hours?

      I can crack any CD in two seconds. Just grab either side with both hands and bend it until it cracks. Works best with Brittney Spears and Backstreet Boys CDs. ;)

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    2. Re:Crack by geordie · · Score: 5, Funny

      "I think we can handle one little file swapper. I sent two units, they're bringing her down now"

      "No lieutenant, your CD is already cracked."

    3. Re:Crack by sTalking_Goat · · Score: 2, Funny
      I think this was cracked a few months ago. But no one understand the press release because the CDs weren't available yet.

      Everytime I hear about CD protection I think about a picture I saw one time of a guy standing in front of Microsoft with a burned copy of XP a full month before its release.

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    4. Re:Crack by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ha. I've already cracked it.

      You want proof? You can't handle the proof!

  2. Nothing like a good challenge by nondeterminism · · Score: 5, Funny
    songs that can be handled by CD players but cannot be ripped

    Where there's a will, there's a way!

  3. Re:Information. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shut up.

  4. Simple hardware hacking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And a couple patch cables later... what restrictions?

  5. Remember kids... by axolotl_farmer · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..autorun on CDs is bad, mmkay!

  6. That'll stop them! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh wait..

    Anthony_Hamilton-Comin_From_Where_Im_From_(Retai l) -2003-WCR

    hit the net about 11 days ago.. damn.

    1. Re:That'll stop them! by lightspawn · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh wait..
      Anthony_Hamilton-Comin_From_Where_Im_From_ (Retail) -2003-WCR
      hit the net about 11 days ago.. damn.

      The only thing that can stop sharing is only releasing music nobody wants to listen to.

      Oh wait...

  7. well, somebody is gonna say it.. by The+Other+White+Boy · · Score: 1, Funny

    ..who the frig is Anthony Hamilton, and is this an artist we should be getting all upset about 'losing' (for lack of a better slashdot-oriented term) in the first place?

    1. Re:well, somebody is gonna say it.. by Java+Pimp · · Score: 4, Funny

      We'll never know since we can't download his stuff to sample it. Who cares!

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  8. Re:Simple solution.. by faldore · · Score: 5, Funny

    Crack it.

  9. Damn by cyber_rigger · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll have to install Wine just to get my CD to not work.

    1. Re:Damn by ThyTurkeyIsDone · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's OK, because you'll have to install Wine anyway for lots of other things to not work. ;-)

  10. Isn't a Anthony Hamilton CD... by TimTheFoolMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...anti-swap by virtue of it's content (with or without copy-protection)?

    Tim

  11. What a shame that I'm running Linux by somethingwicked · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What a shame that I'm running Linux"

    Yeah, you're among friends here. Most people who read /. don't like Linux either

    and my portable MP3 player doesn't support WMA

    Bummer...somehow, I also thought MP3s and WMA files were the exact same thing. You mean they are different formats and your MP3 player won't play WMAs?!

    Bastards!

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  12. Re:A Patch exists by nucal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Raido shack - roaches check in, but they don't check out ...

  13. Ohh, it's encrypted! *shivers* by Andypro · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm, so I suppose running the speaker out back through to the line-in of the sound card and pressing 'record' in any sound recording program would be... too... tough... >_>
    *looks around in a frenzy* _

  14. What kind of ... by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 4, Funny

    mark do you think you'll have to make with a Sharpie this time?

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  15. Re:Where's the crack? by Seanasy · · Score: 4, Funny
    Where's the crack?

    The record execs have smoked it all.

  16. "New Anti-Swap CD's Hit Shelves" by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 3, Funny

    "New Anti-Swap CD's Hit Shelves"

    and thats where they will probably stay....

  17. Re:Secure music? by Anil · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the music was insecure would we have to label it as emo?

  18. Re:Simple solution.. by Serious+Simon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anthony Hamilton? Who?

  19. Re:Not for high-end and car CD players by Esion+Modnar · · Score: 3, Funny
    even 60-year-old executives with business plans from the fifties will learn.

    Nope. Not going to do it. I'm sticking right here with my martini lunches, golf with the boys at the country club, boardroom culture, oh, and yes, the cute young secretary taking DICKtation on my knee. If my company's business plan was good enough for my grandfather, it's good enough for me.

    (Hey, Bob! Have we sued anyone lately? Well, get to it! Why do you think we have that stable of attorneys on the payroll?!?!)

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  20. Re:Simple solution.. by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 3, Funny
    Profit!

  21. More people need to know about this by Travoltus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kicking unrepentant companies in the wallet is one thing, but further humiliating them by publicly putting them lower on the totem pole than companies who repent from Restricted CD's, is even more effective.

    You've actually done us a public service by pointing out these reformed souls.

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  22. The commercial by DarkOx · · Score: 2, Funny

    One copy protected Compact Disk, no CDDA spec $14.95
    One Forgiving CD player or resonable quality $105.99
    One Stero RCA to mini stero patch cord $2.95
    Not haveing to listen to shitty 128kbps WMA rips priceless.

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  23. Roadblock by GetPFunky · · Score: 4, Funny

    That should stop the 6 people that actually listen to his music.

  24. Re:Simple solution.. by Alien+Being · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then, call up the RIAA and tell them you just downloaded the songs from Kazaa and that you want to compliment them on the quality of the recording.

  25. Re:Hmph... by Unregistered · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or install linux

  26. Re:Hmph... by jazman_777 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Speaking of which, what was the result of that Red Book lawsuit?

    The judge determined that Philips' trying to read a non-CD with a CD unit was a violation of the DMCA.

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  27. Re:Hmph... by hampton · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess that makes holding down the Shift key when inserting the CD to prevent it from Autoplaying a DMCA violation now.

  28. Re:Hmph... by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 3, Funny

    How is it that a user named "DickBreath," responding to a troll post about masturbation, posts one of the more insightful comments in this thread?

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  29. The sad thing is... by Arcturax · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... that they will probably sell more CD's to people who want to figure out how to break the protection than to people who actually want to buy the CD for the music.

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    --Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
  30. sounds to me like... by infonick · · Score: 2, Funny

    people will buy this cd simply because it wants to be cracked. Immagin such a scam - our cd comes with the latest anti-ripping technology! this would increase the purchase of any cd by bad artists because all the crackers want a piece of the so called "state-of-the-art" technologies!

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