RE: copy protected audio cds with linux ?
it is not difficult to copy the CD, like you said with digital out and in
the whole point is to use such tools like cdparanoia to make it easy.
I know you can mount a music cd as a file system under BeOS and copy
whatever
you need. I don't think linux can do it at the time though.
There is no way they can make a cd to be 100% copy protected, they are just
trying to make it harder for an average aol user.
On the other hand, I know a lot of people who did rip/downloaded music
for maybe 2 months when napster came out but then they realized that it is
not
worth it to spend couple hours, download it to only find out that they have
some
low quality copy. Everybody knows that if you want good quality fast you
have to have
an access to a protected ftp site, but hey .. it was there before napster
and the rest,
it was there even before, when you borrowed records or cassettes from your
friends
and recorded it.
Also, how much music people really need. After going through all the crap
they
are feeding us you will always come back to your old favorites (which would
be nice
if you can copy to play in you car for example, and preserve your original).
Maybe the recording industry should look somewhere else for the reason of
failing sales
... maybe listen to the radio
... tune ... creed alike music .... tune .... NSYNC (or however it is
spelled ... tune
... creed alike ... tune ... NSYNC ... tune ... titney for change
hell how many NSYNCs can you sell
In some way I understand them though, now people can actually listen to the
whole cd,
not only the one song the radio plays 24 times/24h, and then decide if they
want to
spend $15, $20 or whatever.
btw, you can return almost anything if you don't like it, this rule should
apply to
software and music cds too.
Marcin Kurc
CAD Systems Administrator
Cooper-Standard Automotive
-----Original Message-----
From: dman [mailto:dman@dman.ddts.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:56 AM
To: Debian Users List
Subject: Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:00:38PM -0500, John Cichy wrote:
| Now for the dark side... how hard can it be to connect a digital out on
the
| cd player to a digital in on a computer and ...
Can't be that hard, if you really do have a digital out and digital
in. (I don't have any quality sound equipment. It's outside my field
of expertise).
The simplest counter-example would be to take your (high-quality) CD
sound system to a studio and play the cd into the microphone. Then
you can make your own cd that isn't protected :-).
| When will the get it through their heads, if it can be secured, it can be
| cracked!
They'll understand as soon as managers become technicians. Did the
DVD copy-protection group give up with the realization that if one
player can play it, then anyone (with the right knowledge) can play
it?
-D
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