[Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs

Might be worth a read to see if this effects anyone who uses a PC for playing CD's encoded in Digital Rights Management:

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/200...al-rights.html

[patrickp]

More than a bit worrying. Also a classic example of how some sections of the music business go about enforcing copyright protection, completely undermining their moral position on this.

[punky]

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/200...al-rights.html

Interesting, yet pretty disturbing too.

See you found the same story too punky, I posted my thread "Sony digital rights management probs" a few days ago here on CF Forum.
Very disturbing isn't it?

[punky]

Originally Posted by atlantis

See you found the same story too punky, I posted my thread "Sony digital rights management probs" a few days ago here on CF Forum.
Very disturbing isn't it?

Oops, my bad

It is disturbing. Having DRM is a necessisty, like the guy said, but as he showed at the end, the implementation leaves a lot to be desired.

No worries my friend

Hope it's not going to be a trend amongst the big firms to follow Sony's lead

[punky]

Originally Posted by atlantis

No worries my friend

Hope it's not going to be a trend amongst the big firms to follow Sony's lead

Indeed. Although as some people said in the comments, what Sony has done is quite clearly illegal in the UK and California. Hopefully the EFF will get involved and sue Sony. That'll buck their ideas up. Wether the ACLU will get involved though solely depends on how many ethnic minorities buy the CD

[Jon M]

Originally Posted by atlantis

See you found the same story too punky, I posted my thread "Sony digital rights management probs" a few days ago here on CF Forum.

?? this morning at 8:58am you mean

Originally Posted by Jon M

?? this morning at 8:58am you mean

My turn to say oops, sorry John, just feels like days

[punky]

And you know, this copy protection is completely useless. Just play it on a regular CD player, run the output to the PC's line in, and voila, MP3'd You can probably do it all on a PC, if you get a sound card eavesdropper. Something like Wiretap on Macs, but the Windows equivilent.

Or did noone at Sony think of that? Although the developers with their lucrative contracts might have overlooked that, understandably.

Originally Posted by punky

And you know, this copy protection is completely useless. Just play it on a regular CD player, run the output to the PC's line in, and voila, MP3'd You can probably do it all on a PC, if you get a sound card eavesdropper. Something like Wiretap on Macs, but the Windows equivilent.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net

For Windoze and Mac.

[dilli-theclaw]

Also - for those of you (like me) that use anyDVD to watch multi region dvd's on their laptop's/pc's - that also has an option to remove audio protection.

p.s. I see the option - but don't have any protected cd's to try it with, but I thought I'd mention it in case you've got anyDVD

[SMHarman]

That does take 82 minutes to rip the CD though and you potentially have to split the MP3 into the individual tracks, and you cannot grab the titles from CDDB etc. So it is a workaround. Being as the CD cannot be written back to it is a bit of a farce as I can copy it 3 times on my laptop, 3 times on my desk top, 3 times on the server and so on.

[patrickp]

If you read the comments on that page, several people recommended disabling autostart on your CD/DVD drive on a PC. If the disk doesn't autostart, the software doesn't run, and you can, apparently, then play the music tracks without problems.

Originally Posted by Chris T

http://audacity.sourceforge.net

For Windoze and Mac.

A friend of mine whose opinion I value recommended Audacity to me, so I suspect it must be good. However, I've always used Audiograbber, which can also rip music from a line input. It's been freeware again for nearly two years now.

Looks like Sony are getting wise, after the event:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27416