EvilKyote

Just received 2 audio CD's I bought from Amazon, Both good albums, both with Copy protection! What a ******* joke! causing me problems from the start!

Copy protection: More like play protection!

Grrr, haven't tried it on my hifi yet but having trouble playing it on my laptop!

Stupid record companies!

Jye

Send them straight back, thats what I do.

flat4

are they ones where you can draw over the protection part of the CD with a perm. pen?

EvilKyote

lol, Haven't tried that yet!

Although I am determined to copy them to my MP3 player

scoobydooooo

yea , thats the big problem with this bleedin copy protection thing , i just bought a few cds and had the same problem , all its going to promote is copying from the net instead of buing the cds in the first place , if i canot copy it on to my ipod i'm not going to buy the thing in the first place !!

angrynorth

Really annoying this one, half of them don't play on Macs or if they do they skip at 9 seconds, can't transfer to an iPod or copy to your hard drive. May aswell just download them and take the album back.

They arent even classed as audio CD's anymore (notice the lack of the CD logo).

On the plus side BMG are no lnger sending out CD's with CP on because of a big public backlash.

chiark

Just send 'em back as they're not "CDs" in the strict sense (ie Red Book standard sense)

Neil Smalley

Agreed. Send them back or just keep the shift key pressed when you load the CD

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5087875.html

Failing that use a program called Alcohol to make a copy of the CD(for backup purposes) and use that.

It does'nt stop CD's being copied, but does stop people who have a legitimate and legal right to play the CD they bought on any CD Player they have.

andym172

I've never had any trouble copying my music over to my iPod - first using an 800MHz iBook and now a 1.25GHz Powerbook.

Dido's new album went on no problemo!

Dave P

With all this talk of the net everyone seems to forget that people have been taping albums for about 40 years!!! My dad used to record the top 20 each week and as teenagers we were always copying each others albums. Did they make vinyl copy protect? Did it kill the record industry? No I think not!

I rest my case

Dave

Jye

Yeah but they didnt have to pay plonkers £80 million for recording dross in those days

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Vinyl was MUCH cheaper though. How is it that 16 classical CD's in a set cost £30, and a single pop CD costs £15?

chiark

Part of the problem is that analogue quality degrades as you move down generations... So a copy of a copy of a copy is ****e.

A copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy etc of a digital source is perfect.

MattW

And - if you wanted to copy an album you had to know someone with a copy, now you just download it from James007 or whatever on a p2p sharer.

beemerboy

lol, i dont think that needs write protecting!!!!

BB

i8gtmf

Just line in to your pc via a standard cd player

Nigel H

i8gtmf


And then what please, I'm a bit thick

ianmiller999

I think this sentence somes the whole situation up. It stops honest purchasers/listeners from listening however the people who want to copy the Cd will find a quick an easy way anyway.

So all in all we are paying extra money for our CDs so they can develop stupid software like this.