Registered: Oct 2001
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PC's / Mac's Can't Play CD's; Are DVD's Next?

Read all about it at PC World, then come back here to rant or rave.

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Registered: Jan 2000
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Copy protection is a loosing battle. Everytime the industry comes out with a new 'unbreakable' system, a week or two later, someone has broken it already.

It's a waste of their money, and, eventually, the consumer's money.

I wouldn't worry about it. Besides, from what I understand, this copy-protection crap is only being used in top-40 CDs right now.

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Registered: Oct 2000
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I'd be more worried if I purchased CD's.

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I'd be more worried if I purchased CD's.

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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Hawaii
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No listening to CDs on airplanes?

So, if you've got an iBook and want to listen to a CD on a plane trip, you have to bring a portable CD player? That's friggin wonderful .

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Registered: May 2001
Location: Chicago
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Homer I hate to say it, buttt i agree with ya.
All that protection money is only for the CD's and songs you already hear, every hour on the hour.

I really miss Napster!!!
I really miss digging around for LP's and tapes at the "Music Go Round".

I love the digital age butt it makes my huge collection of tape and 12inch, sad to look at in others eyes

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You know, there an ineffable quality to the scratches on an LP. That's how I remember most of the songs that I listen to "digitally remastered."

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Originally posted by culo77
I really miss Napster!!!

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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I don't get it. There's nothing they can do to stop people from simply recording the audio out of any CD Player and encoding that into an MP3.

But, as always, we vote with our pocketbooks.
Just don't buy the CDs with this junk built into them. And if they fail to tell you that a disk has copy protection, you have every right to return it (AFTER you record and encode every track off of it. lol ).

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Originally posted by Vertigo
And if they fail to tell you that a disk has copy protection, you have every right to return it (AFTER you record and encode every track off of it. lol ).

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Registered: Sep 1999
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Originally posted by Yorick

Though one hopes that since they're limiting your use of the product, and aren't going to tell you in advance, you have every right to return it. I'm expecting a licensing agreement (like that for software) to turn up on music CD's any day now.

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Exactly. If they won't accept it, people will raise hell. Just wait
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.