Jeff52 wrote:
I have frequented a number of websites and forums discussing the new
copy protection schemes as opposed to those that were originally used.
The new schemes are quite different than the first generation and will
only become much more sophisticated. We no longer have "redbook" CD's.
Some new CD's may be ripped by SOME programs or by SOME drives or by
SOME operating systems or a combination thereof. Yeah, I can copy a CD
via digital out to my professional stand-alone CD writer or my digital
audio tape player and then rip it (or copy it via analogue out), but my
whole point in starting this thread wasn't that a particular scheme
would not eventually be cracked or a workaround found, but that this
has become a giant shell game about DRM.
MOST people will not have the time or sophistication to figure out how
to rip a non-DRM copy of their CD, thus coercing those who manufacture
products (digital audio players, including Slim Devices) to adopt DRM
protection. The hackers will find a way: "Let's see...this is the new
CD by the Foo Wrestlers. According to my new Snoop Copy Protect Detect
program it uses the SunMoonMacrovision XYZ protection scheme. Ahhh, now
I can switch to my Linux/Apple/Commodore 64 box, plug in my external
Plextor/Lite On combo 12XY drive, use Isobuster/EAC/Audiograb prebeta
version 87a, run it through my homebrew DAC computer card, store an
image on my hard drive, convert to FLAC with cuesheet and then rip it
to CD-R with Nero version 1AZP. Now I can use that copy to rip it to my
player or drive without DRM. Yesssireee, I CRACKED it."
Too true -- this is why if the CD won't rip in at least one of my
machines I send it back to whence it came for store credit and tell them
that it's defective. I don't even bother with an anti-DRM rant, I just
tell them that it doesn't work in my car. I then use the store credit
for something else, because I don't have time to deal with finding out
if it was DRM or a truly defective disc. Funny thing is that I've only
had to do this a couple of times, maybe because we don't listen to top 40.
The retailers know full well that they will be killed by returns if the
CDs they sell don't work 100%. They're helping out with this little
social experiment, but they're not vested in the RIAA's success and it
won't take a lot of returns for them to side with us.
--
Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a Scientific Venture...
Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip since 1996!
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