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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: CD copy protection question |
| Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2003 04:39:52 -0500 |
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I had the same thing happen with the Bangles "Doll Revolution" CD - it wanted
to "update some files", so I canceled the install process and started up my
old
CD Player appilcation on Windows 98SE (which loads quicker than Microcrap
Media
Player) and the disk played fine. Im just afraid that one of the "big boys"
future CD's wont have an opt-out feature. The best thing to do is disable
autostart on your CD-Rom drive. But I use Easy CD Creator Pro and the damn
program MUST have it enabled so it can use Direct CD for CD-RW.
Im starting to get tired of "Enhanced CD's" that load up first with bonus
videos, shockwave graphics, links to websites, ads for other artists, etc. It
makes me just want to RIP the whole CD to Mp3 the first time around and never
put the thing in my computer again. I hope NONE of Not Lame's future CD's have
these wonderful features in the future.
PS I admire your guts for writing that kind of review.
Billy
At 02:18 AM 7/10/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Mando Diao's BRING 'EM IN (out next month on Mute) has a new
>copy-protection device that I hadn't seen before. When I put the disc in
>my computer, a screen comes up that says that my computer must "update"
>some files before the record can be listened to. In other words, they want
>to install a data miner on my hard drive to monitor what I do with their
>CD. Monitor this, Mute: your disc is now in my wastebasket, and the print
>review you solicited by sending me the disc in the first place is entirely
>about this new device of yours (which crashed my computer the first several
>times I tried to listen to it) and the fact that making me feel like a
>criminal while I'm basically DOING YOU A FAVOR by drumming up some advance
>press for your new baby band is not the way to endear me to you, no matter
>how much I agree philosophically with your aversion to copyrtight theft.
>
>S
>
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