On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:59:27PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 15:54, Markus Grunwald wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > Some time ago, a friend of mine had a problem copying a copy-protected > > CD-Audio. He asked me to help copy it with my linux skills ;) > > > > Well, I couldn't since cdparanoia and the like didn't work. Can you tell > > me some linux tools who might help me with this task ? > > > > BTW: What we wanted to do is perfectly legal, since everybody can make a > > copy of his own CDs for personal use only. So no juristic comments, > > please ;) > > I believe these copy-protection schemes work by introducing a lot of > errors on the CD. Audio CD players skip them but computers treat the CD > as faulty. > > If this were in Britain I would take the CD back to the shop as unfit > for the purpose for which it was sold and/or complain to Trading > Standards. I should have thought that you could do something similar in > Germany, since the quality of the CD has been deliberately downgraded. A recent 2600 magazine had an article on how to patch cdparanoia so it would read these copy protected CDs. -- Nathan Norman - Micromuse Ltd. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com Gil-galad was an Elven-king. | The Fellowship Of him the harpers sadly sing: | of the last whose realm was fair and free | the Ring between the Mountains and the Sea. | J.R.R. Tolkien
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