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Originally posted by psyjax:
I think the most disturbing thing about this is the fact that such a copyright protection scheem exists at all!! That is soooooo wrong, for so many reasons, I hope a hack or crack for this sort of bullshit gets released soon.
Anyway...
People who would send their comps. in to repair this crap are just plain dumb. All you gotta do is hit the emergency eject switch on the CD-rom, the old iMac's had this. Even if it is not on the front, just pop the base and press it on the CD-rom unit itself.
Once done, pop in your CD and re-install the firmware.
I think copyright portection is pure BS, and the industry is going to aliate their fans. Fuck them. If they made music people actually cared about, then maybe people would actually pay.
From the article,
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Other titles to feature the technology include White Lilies Island by Natalie Imbruglia, White Ladder by David Gray, the Star Wars Episode 2 soundtrack and All this Time by Sting.
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So the Celine Dion CD isn't the only CD that features this ludicris technology. I hope that ths doesn't become a widely used copy protection method. On a PC this same protection causes the machine to crash and can wipe out the firmware of your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-RW Drive. I don't think it is right that they can use methods that will actually damage people's hardware just because they want to play the CD in thier computer. They should just find a way that you can play the CD from a CD-ROM drive but blocks you from ripping the music from the CD if protection is such a big deal for them.
The reason so many people download MP3's is because we all know that it doesn't cost no $13-$20 for them to make a Audio CD. We shouldn't have to pay those kind of prices for something that only costs $0.50 to make. Especially since most CD's only have a few good songs on them.
I think that whoever uses one of these protected CD's in thier system and it does damage to the system has the right to sue he record company(ies) for doing damage to personal property.