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The so-called copy-protected CDs

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i_jera said on June 24, 2002 16:53:

If you are interested in that, here is a quite good site :
http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/cd/

Scoll said on June 25, 2002 09:15:

hehe interesting, I heard also that you just put black felt pen round the edge of the CD and the copyright protection no longer works ;-)

coyboyusa said on June 25, 2002 12:12:

its just evidence of the sad attempt the record companies have made to cover up their real problem...it isnt people like us who download music to listen to and eventually buy...its people like dj’s and music reviewers who put out compies of early promo cds on the net...they should be persecuted and not us....we already pay as much as 20 dollars for cde’s that cost just pennies to prodouce & promote. many labels have already stopped early releases and promo copy distribution....now if they would all pay attention

Vixzter said on June 26, 2002 05:42:

Might try that pen trick.
Anyway...what anoys me is the fact that the bloody shops stick price labels over the part of the cover where it says “not compatible with PC/Mac” is it done by accident or on purpose.....coz I’ve seen alot of cds like it in shops, the main culprits are Virgin megastores and HMV

pietROxette said on June 26, 2002 07:10:

Really? That sucks.
Also, usually online stores don’t say if a CD is copy protected or not.

BTW the pen trick only worked for the first few CDs, later the labels realised it was easy to avoid the protection that way so they started using toher technologies.

frodi said on June 26, 2002 09:28:

I’ve also heard that the pentrick can destroy part of the cd if you doind it wrong. Problaby a myth - but it say for itself that if a track being cartooned it can nolonger be played...

C’ ya!

Eddie said on June 26, 2002 22:41:

I am pretty sure that some software like Nero Burning Rom can easily override the protection. Too bad (or too good) I haven’t found any protected cd yet to check ;)

i_jera said on June 27, 2002 07:40:

yes, I have Nero too, but here in my country there aren’t original CDs (only bootlegs), so I can’t try it...
and, what about the box set of Marie? Are the CDs ’copy-protected’?

pietROxette said on June 27, 2002 07:50:

There are no original CDs in your contry????? How come? You can’t go to stores and buy officially released albums?

i_jera said on June 27, 2002 08:06:

well, there are some original , but they are not so many... even Room Service wasn’t on CD. (well, not to mention the fact that there is NO WAY to get any of the albums before HAND , even on tape, but to buy it on mp3 (!) bootleg). there are some good online shops where you can buy the CD but they are quite expensive, or the other alternative - there is company, called KaMusic, where you can order a CD and get it after a few weeks... of course, I do that for the CDs I want to have original, for the others I buy the cassette and download the mp3s... but I NEVER buy any of these bootlegs. (well, I bought the mp3 CD of Roxette and 2 others, but soon I’m gonna get them on original CD or tape)
And I wonder what will happen, if all the CDs become copy-protected, but they don’t even come to our country (Bulgaria)... then how will I be able to listen to the CD??!!

pietROxette said on June 27, 2002 08:21:

Oh, I know what you mean! I think I have a couple of those CDs you call ’bootlegs’. They used to be available here as well, of course, not in record stores but some other channels of distribution (like, lists of CDs available spreading over the internet and stuff). They are like original CDs, but there is no cover booklet, only a sheet with the front cover printed on it, usually in worse quality. And they used to cost like half of the price of the original albums. They are either copies of existing albums (like, I used to have Baladas En Espanol or a Calling All Stations from Genesis in this kind of edition) or otherwise non existing compilations (like Roxette Gold and stuff).
But the local RIA (called MAHASZ) got kinda angry because these CDs spreading, they considered it illegal and people spreding these CDs got sued.

i_jera said on June 27, 2002 08:38:

here are no other bootlegs but the albums or hits compilations... nothing rare like live stuff or b-sides or demos... here they cost s.th. like 3,5 EU, while the original CD is 15 (or usually more - for new CD). and, there are mp3 bootlegs, too, they are 7 EU...
my mp3 bootleg of Roxette has all albums except POP (and RS, but it is bought before it) + some of Marie and Per... so it is quite good deal for people who cannot buy the original CDs. If I buy every CD that I want to have, then I would be easily ruined, I simply don’t have the money.