Crazy copy protection

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I was reading some old auto express mags yeterday, and stumbled across an article in helpline - someone was having problems playing cds in their Porsche. They just wouldn't play. Curiously, they didn't play on his Freelander's alpine stero either, but they would play on his daughter's Ka. Apparently, it was due to a new copy protection placed on the cds, which was supposed to encrypt the songs. It wasn't the Porsche's or Freelander's cd autochangers, as every other cd they tried worked.
In the end, they managed to cure the problems by, ironically, copying the cds to cdr on their desktop pc!!
Crazy!!!
 
I haven't heard of this, but it wouldn't suprise me if a record company did something completely bizarre and retarded like that ...
 
Audio CD copy protection has been going on for a few years now. It shoul say on the back of the CD case that it will be incompatible with some audio hardware. 👎

The thing is, these copy protection schemes only work against the average listener. They're actually quite easy to circumvent (thus, successfully rip) if you know what you're doing. So, the money they're (record labels) wasting trying to stop piracy just bumps up CD prices and then further increases piracy in the end. Heh.
 
I remember a while ago a company brought out a audio CD protection thing that stopped you from being able to make Mp3s off it on the PC. Some uni student in America figured out that if you hold the shift button while loading the CD, it bypasses the protection. Last I heard, the company was trying to sue this student for $23 million. Idiots. I also found out recently that iTunes bypasses this protection anyway, without the shift button trick

I think some of this protection stuff is getting out of hand. I couldn't install my bought HL2 game for 2 months because of the protection software it had on the discs. After numerous emails back and forth between me and Steam/Valve, I got it installed by not installing the Steam software from the dics, but from the internet. This allowed me to install the game from the discs. The best advice Steam support gave me was to update my CD Drive drivers (which were updated anyway) or install a different CD Drive onto my PC, then install the game. My computer is only about 4 months old.
 
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I have a friend who had exactly this problem with a CD that is in the charts at the moment, and the Bose system in his Audi TT. Strangely, the same CD played in an Audi allroad with a Bose system.
 
I don't know if it's true, but I've read similar stories on the net.

Copy protection is really annoying to me, because I like to copy my CDs to create my own mix CDs. I don't even do illegal downloading and copying. Only place I actually download is from iTunes and even then, I end up buying the CD, if I like it.

If I start encountering problems with some copy protected CDs, I will deliberately start copying CDs to return the favor to the record companies.
 

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