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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Copy protection on the Caesars' Paper Tigers? |
| Date | Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:45:09 -0400 |
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From: "Bill Weitze at Home" <bweitze@california.com>
> Oddly, my new (used) copy of Paper Tigers by the Caesars will play
> in my PCs at home and work, but not on my combination CD/DVD player
> at home. Is this a known problem? It seems opposite of what you'd
> expect from a copy protection scheme.
Dunno, but I had a similarly irritating problem this afternoon with
Natasha Bedingfield's UNWRITTEN. After I finally found the Helpfile
on this poorly-designed disc-menu, I found a FAQ that included the
question "How can I import these files into iTunes?" The answer said
to fill out a contact form and they'd send the solution to the problem
to the provided email. So I send them my junk-mail Yahoo account, and
a couple minutes later, they send me these instructions: make a copy
of the disc as WMA files, burn those to another disc and use the
burned disc to burn the tracks to iTunes. In other words, here's
exactly how to quickly and easily work around the very copyright
protection system we went to so much effort to put together.
The amusing part of this is the way they try to spin this as Apple's
fault, even telling us to following this link to Apple's homepage to
complain about it...when in fact it's their own stupid copy-protection
system that's causing the problem. If they care so little about the
protection that they'll tell you immediately how to override it -- and
encourage you to burn the disc while you're at it! -- then why not
just drop it entirely and make it iTunes-compatible in the first
place?
Seriously, have the majors *always* been run by morons and we just
never noticed it before?
S
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