When Copy Protection Fails

StArSkY writes "The Age in Australia has an article today explaining the experiences of a Melbourne guy who purchased the Norah Jones CD tht is 'copy protected.' Unfortunately the only way he could listen to the CD on Apple computers or Intel computers running XP was to copy the CD. This sort of defeats the purpose of the copy protection in the first place. Serious yet amusing at the same time."

He copied a cd?

[craenor]

When does he get out of jail?

That isn't too bad.

[ATAMAH]

Because judging by the way things are going with RIAA very soon we won't be able to listen to a CD unless we actually buy concert tickets beforehand.

IFPI

[Mattygfunk1]

International Federation of the Phonographic Industry

I had to do a double-take on reading the name of that organisation. Needless to say I was greatly disappointed when I reread it. That h just looks so similiar to an r.

I had my credit card out to join and everything.

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Before long...

[lalonso]

Eventually they'll resort to shipping blank CDs to thwart copying, and expect you to just stare at the pretty CD jacket while pretending you're listening to it...

Been there, done that

[Jusii]

Bought a copy protected CD, which was from EMI. Couldn't listen to it so I made a copy for myself. Then I mailed the original CD back to EMI with note saying what I had to do just to listen the CD and here's the original back, I won't need it, my 20 euros for fighting piracy.

That's nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

Just wait until DRM gets widely established. Nothing new will work in old hardware.

You'll have to buy everything all over again.

Re:He copied a cd?

[arvindn]

As an apology for the inconvenience caused by being unable to play the CD, he'll be getting a Norah Jones T-shirt and DVD. However, for making an unauthorized copy of the CD, he'll be sued for $97 trillion.

Re:I´ve said it before, and I´ll say it again

[Jusii]

Those music disks are not 'copy protected', they are 'playback crippled'

I call them 'listening protected'

Re:What's point of buying a .wav quality product..

[confused philosopher]

"This is like buying a DVD movie to view via a ViewMaster."

Hey, don't dis ViewMaster!

I don't see any "3D" DVD movies yet. But if they were copy protected, you can bet someone would hack them to play on a ViewMaster.

Re:Solution: dont use XP?

[confused philosopher]

I'd like to ammend your title to read:
Solution: dont use Norah Jones.

Please, no Funny mods please, this is clearly flamebait ;-)

reminds me of ...

[mirko]

I recently bought the latest opus of "Asian Dub Foundation" which wasn't carrying Philips CDDA logo but some "copy-protected-whatever logo instead.
I tried it in a pc.
It launched a shitty player.
I put it in my iBook, I could iTune it, except the first track.
I then clicked on the audio cd icon and could import the last track by just drag'n dropping it on the desktop, then encoding it in iTune.
I guess Copy-protected is some kind of MS trademark :-)

Re:IFPI

[arvindn]

Uhh... you really want to buy pics that you're allowed to jack off to only once?

Re:How did he copy it?

[neurostar]

how did he manage to make a copy?

Bah, that's easy...
tweezers, a really small magnet, and lots of time are all you need...

Re: Same with software

[Black Parrot]

> My Warcraft III EULA (and I'm sure others -- that was just a random selection from my game collection) explicitly states that I have the right to make one backup copy.

Does it say how many copies you can make of the backup copy?

When Copy Protection Fails?

[the-dude-man]

When does it succeed? The subject implies it worked at one point

Slammin' Vinyl

[Vollernurd]

Probably said already, but I don't have time to read all the comments:

Get with it guys, dust off the old record player and buy your new stuff on vinyl! Works for me, except I need a clean-room to store my music collection. Oh yeah, and it weighs about a ton.

Re: More and more of this ...

[Anonymous Coward]

At that point, what stops me from not being the CD since it won't work for me? The record companies will end up shooting their own foot off ...

Damn right! How dare they stop you from being a CD??? Insensitive clods! But they need never find out - all you need to do is kinda curl up into a circle and sandwich yourself in plastic ... all in the privacy of your own home ...

... or did you mean "buying"?? ;)

RIAA announces new DRM measures.

[goldcd]

Before being allowed to purchase a CD you will have to have your house RIAA DRM certified. RIAA operatives will removed from your house any equipment that could possibly be used to infringe upon their artists copyrights. Illegal items include, CD duplicators, PCs, Tape recorders, Video Recorders, wax disks, loudspeakers (you NOT your neighbours have bought the right to enjoy our music). Music shall be listened to through a single (approved) mono-earpiece (some listeners with stereo ear-pieces have abused the priviliedge and let others 'sample' the music using the spare ear bud).
After your music purchase an RIAA representative (probably a student trying to pay off $97 trillion) will sit with you at all times to ensure your compliance with our terms and conditions.
"We hope you enjoy your music purchase and continue to support your record industry"
p.s. Squeal little piggy!

Shameful!

[$$$exy Gwen Araujo]

1. You didn't realise that cdparanoia takes a parameter telling it which tracks to rip (e.g. "cdparanoia 2-" for track 2 to last track). This is explained in the first few lines of the manual. So you rummaged around the raw source code of cdparanoia and changed it before you looked at its manual.
2. You used diff without the -U option, and didn't even tell us which file you commented out the exit() in. Which file is it? What's the context?
3. You used a C++/C99 comment delimiter in what is a C89 source code. Hope you have have a lax compiler that defaults to C99 or ignores standards, because it'll choke on that.
4. You made a web-page about it and posted it on Slashdot, no doubt causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth from people even less experienced at editing source code than you, when all they needed to do was run the cdparanoia command differently.

   But far, far worse than any of those crimes....

5. You bought an Avril Lavigne CD! Dude, how could you?

Re:Australian Copyright Law

[gboronat]

Didn't most of the population of Australia end up there becuase of doing more than 3 months jail time?

Re:How did he copy it?

[EpsCylonB]

My girlfriend (yes I have one!!)

No one likes a gloater.

Oldf joke

[A nonymous Coward]

How if you want to have fun when entering Australian customs, if they ask if you are a convicted felon, asnwer "Oh, is that still a requirement?". But be ready for no sense of humor and a quick return flight.

Remember, it's an ollllld joke.

No that's NOT what Kazaa is for...

[Anonymous Coward]

Kazaa is for spying on you, ripping off personal details about you and your system and stealing your computer cycles and Internet bandwidth.

Do some reasearch on the web and get the hell off of Kazaa!

Misread of "simon richards"

[sacrilicious]

creative director of the Simon Richards Group

I first read this as "creative director of the Richard Simmons group". Oh my.

Re:Australian Copyright Law

[Theaetetus]

Living in a country founded by criminals is a lot more fun that one founded by puritans ;)

Rephrase... "Living in a country founded by criminals is a lot more fun than one run by criminals" ;)

-T, from Enronimerica

Re:Sounds Familiar

[Jordy]

The last part isn't quite right: Up up down down left right left right b a start. Originally used in Contra to get 30 extra lives for the NES.

Having entered the code about 10,000 times, it is permanently burned into my head

Here's a really off-the-wall idea

[mwood]

Buy a CD player.