Does anyone know a site where they list all the CDs that have this bs copy protection on them so we can be aware of it. If not, someone here must be itching to start one up... How about www.cdcopylist.com, or something like that. It would be great tool for consumers to find out about the RIAA attempts to "rip" them off.
In addition, people shouldn't worry about the whole CD copy protection thing. I bet that it will be days before someone figures out how to modifiy the way a computer plays a CD in order to extract the digital data (if they haven't already). This way, one would even have to go through the hassle extracting the audio at 1x off of an external CD player. All someone would have to do is figure out how regular CD players behave differently and write a little program that modifies the way the CD is read. After all, digital data is all the same, and if just about any regular CD audio player can read it, then it can't be all that complicated.
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Does anyone know a site where they list all the CDs that have this bs copy protection on them so we can be aware of it. If not, someone here must be itching to start one up... How about www.cdcopylist.com, or something like that. It would be great tool for consumers to find out about the RIAA attempts to "rip" them off.
In addition, people shouldn't worry about the whole CD copy protection thing. I bet that it will be days before someone figures out how to modifiy the way a computer plays a CD in order to extract the digital data (if they haven't already). This way, one would even have to go through the hassle extracting the audio at 1x off of an external CD player. All someone would have to do is figure out how regular CD players behave differently and write a little program that modifies the way the CD is read. After all, digital data is all the same, and if just about any regular CD audio player can read it, then it can't be all that complicated.