Artist Suggesting Ways Around Copy Protection

fanboyslayer writes "Switchfoot's new album Nothing Is Sound shipped from Sony with copy protection software on the CD, much to the dismay of thousands of iPod-wielding fans. The band posted a response on their official forum apologizing for the protection and detailing ways to circumvent the protection and rip their songs to PC. Switchfoot linked to open-source program CDex's download page with instructions on disabling the autorunning protection and ripping the files to MP3. Many of Switchfoot's fans have been upset by the copy protection measures, and it's nice to know the artists seem to care about the issue."

Comments

Re:Nice comment

[ArsenneLupin]

"to disable Autorun, hold down SHIFT, unless it's a copy-protected disc in which case it WILL auto-run regardless of any key-presses or registry changes you make"?

That would be great! Finally we can again make bluescreen disks which won't be defeated with a trivial press on the shift key, hehe...

Re:Nice comment

[Pollardito]

Maybe Sony should sue Microsoft for not giving them a good way to prohibit users from exercising their fair use rights.

they could followup with a lawsuit against the keyboard manufacturers for including not one but two shift keys

Re:How will burning back affect quality?

[NetFusion]

Yeah if you want audiophile quality music, buy the cd.

Oh wait..