On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:56:24AM -0600, dman wrote: > 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 :-). > While all these play-cd-in-cd-player-then-recorcd-via-sound-card schemes may work, they do sacrifice one of the most important feature of ripping: convenience. Recording off my stereo will take ~72min per CD; even on my crappy little IDE CD-ROM drive, it takes about a quarter of that. Sony might not be able to stop people ripping their CDs, but it certainly does make it less convenient. Of course, the other side of the coin is that it only has to be ripped once, by someone, somewhere. Once they post it to Gnutella, or Morhpeus or whatever the leading network of the day is, anyone can get it. -rob -- I did not vote for the Australian government.
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