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Post by Sid on Nov 17, 2005 4:24:33 GMT -5
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten.... ....I hope Sony get sued bigtime over this! Couldn't agree more...  |
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Post by Saar°berry on Nov 17, 2005 13:30:37 GMT -5
What is the point anyway? They won't be able to stop piracy.  Everyone has some copied and downloaded cd's in their collection. If I like the music, I buy the album anyways... NOTHING beats the smell of a new cd / booklet. I haven't downloaded a single album yet. The stuff I have, were given by people who wanted me to listen to a certain album or artist. |
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Post by blueisntred on Nov 17, 2005 13:47:54 GMT -5
What is the point anyway? They won't be able to stop piracy. Everyone has some copied and downloaded cd's in their collection. If I like the music, I buy the album anyways... NOTHING beats the smell of a new cd / booklet. I haven't downloaded a single album yet. The stuff I have, were given by people who wanted me to listen to a certain album or artist. Me too  |
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Post by rosalie on Dec 3, 2005 14:30:43 GMT -5
Considering you can just record sound using a Microhpone, or line in, anyway, all they're doing is making it ever so slightly awkward to copy it.
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Post by teppic on Dec 6, 2005 16:38:50 GMT -5
Just so you know, i believe this only applies to the US copies of the above cd's. I don't think the 'anti-piracy' (or "virus writers dream come true" as i call it) software was ever used in any other country. There's been loads of crap happened since this story broke... Sony releasing a 'fix' which was even worse than the original problem, Sony admitting they don't know how they'll get the software off anyone's machine (they hadn't thought about that apparently  ), and the inevitable lawsuit being filed. Sony deserve to seriously go down for this one... |
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Post by wysteria on Dec 30, 2005 9:09:58 GMT -5
I heard at some point, somewhere, (my memory is dreadful) that similar softwares were present on the Official Tori Boots. Does anyone have any further information about this? I buy every Tori item as it comes out, and I always like to MP3 them for my own use... im so retentive i have honestly never even given one commercially available MP3 out to anyone: 'Go buy the album, hun.' I havent yet added the boots to my collection because im worried about this software business... Hoping someone might know?
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Post by teppic on Jan 15, 2006 15:18:03 GMT -5
I heard at some point, somewhere, (my memory is dreadful) that similar softwares were present on the Official Tori Boots. Does anyone have any further information about this? I buy every Tori item as it comes out, and I always like to MP3 them for my own use... im so retentive i have honestly never even given one commercially available MP3 out to anyone: 'Go buy the album, hun.' I havent yet added the boots to my collection because im worried about this software business... Hoping someone might know? As far as i'm aware the Tori boots are safe - Sony got so much shit for what they did that they stopped putting the copy protection that was causing the problems on their cd's right away (before the Tori boots were even released if i remember correctly). |
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Post by Franklin on Jan 16, 2006 9:43:45 GMT -5
I'm afraid the list with this Copy Control is much bigger! I now have 2 Transmission Records cd's from After Forever (Remagine) and Epica (The Score - An Epic Journey) and they have Copy Control as well! With audiograb and audioconvert programs you hardly can rip those cd's to mp3. When you want to put it on harddisk media players to listen to it amongst previous albums of these bands, you must be lucky if you can play wma-files, cause these are added on the cd.
But when you put these wma-files from the cd to your pc, you can't play them, cause the pc asks for authorisation via Windows Media Player or WinAmp and you see in that pop up a Sony DADC site, but you don't get an authorisation to play the cd!
Even this wellknown and well-appreciated record company (Epica, After Forever, Ayreon, Asrai) is afraid of piracy. But you can copy these cd's one-on-one without a problem and these are easy playable on cd-players.
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