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Copy-protected CD Tops U.S. Charts

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pay-to-play dept.

Joey Patterson writes "CNET is reporting that Velvet Revolver's new album, 'Contraband', which is protected with SunnComm's anti-copying technology, has topped the U.S. album charts. The SunnComm and BMG execs quoted in the article say that they're pleased with the apparent consumer acceptance of the anti-piracy technology, but they have been hearing questions about how people can get the copy-blocked songs from the CD onto an iPod."

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  1. gnaa fails it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


  2. this is annoying... ohh wait, its the RIAA. duhh by emorphien · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is becoming normal to me. Anything associated with the RIAA is officially defective. Is this the Suncomm software that could be bypassed by pressing shift (or turning of autorun)?

    I've yet to find a CD I couldn't rip and put on my MP3 player, and the day I find one is the day I keep returning them as defective until the store runs out of stock. The music Nazis won't ruin my completely legal fun!

    --


    Presently here, but not there.
  3. Re:It's not acceptance... by DAldredge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Then why do I get moderated down when I say negative things about the EU? It's not just American's.

  4. In.. by SillySnake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Russia.. The CD Copywrites you! .. You insens.. clod.. I don't own a CD player you... etc.. :)

  5. Re:Doesn't mean people are happy with it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no no no, it's keeping her parents from seeing her in the latest Girls Gone Wild commercial

  6. oh well! by LocoSpitz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess the FBI's new anti-piracy logo failed to terrify people into submission, as was hoped by record companies...

  7. tsarkon reports sir haxalot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sir Haxalot was tired after another long day of karmawhoring at slashdot. "Hacky," his mother called, "time for dinner!" Sir Haxalot came upstairs from the basement where the bright lights of the kitchen temporarily blinded him. "Mommy, it's too bright in here!" he complained. His mother smiled "Come here, Hacky. Let mommy make you feel better."

    He followed her voice but kept his eyes tightly shut. He felt a hand massage his crotch.. "MMmm... mommy, you know I like that..." "Yes dear, mommy knows.." The hand undid his zipper and pulled his turgid member forthwith.

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  8. And then the question becomes by King_of_Prussia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    why would anyone want to buy, let alone pirate a Velevet Revolver CD? Truly they are the shittest, most over produced, revenant rock group in existence today. The only thing worse I could imagine is yet another Motley Crue reunion (shudder).

    --

    Making the moon less necessary since 1998.

  9. tsarkon reports yoda grease 9 step by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    props to all dead homiez

    to all the censorship on the internet in general and on Slashdot, FUCK YOU, fuck the death of goatse.cx, fuck the death of lemonparty, fuck you all. I hope you call get horrible cancers in your reproductive areas and die. Fuck CmdrTaco too. All you fuckers DIE of cancer. Die!

    Tsarkon Reports 9 Step Yoda Grease 9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
    v 4.03.0
    $YodaBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/yodanotes/9steppro cess.sgml,v 4.03.0 2004/06/17 14:15:45 tsarkon Exp $

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    5. Pucker your balloon knot several times actuating the sphincter muscle in order to work it in.
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  10. Re:ripping to iPod works fine by SoTuA · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    has more to do with Slash and Duff McKagan together again

    Bah, those two aren't all that great. Where's Izzy Stradlin, that's what I would be looking out for. (Check out liner notes in all the GNR albums, he was the driving creative force behind the spoiled brat tantrums of Axl Rose... and soon after he left the band, no more original songs... one cover album and down the drain)

    Actually, the inclusion of Scott Weiland arouses my curiosity a lot more than Slash/Duff/Matt. Always wondered what GNR would sound like if they had a real singer and not a whinning bitch.