Re: Copy protected CD's

[Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net>]

> Read an article in the WP about copyprotected CD's:
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061800149.html
> 
> Would cdparanoia care?

I read that article all the way through this AM, hoping that it would say
something about how the protection scheme works.  But it didn't.  No doubt
the vendor stays quiet about the specifics, but it shouldn't be hard to
figure out.

Does anyone know the details?  Some Windows-specific driver that's required
to read the tracks?  And how does it know how many times you've ripped a
song-- stashing counts in the registry some place, or in a hidden part of
the hard drive?  

In any case, it sounds like an abomination-- a music CD that requires
Windows.