Posted by FatKat on 09/14/05 15:39

Larry W. Virden wrote:
> One of the kids was telling me that some of the latest CDs being
> released are in a format that prevents one from ripping them into MP3s.

Kids today.

> In fact, apparently you can't even listen to the CDs on one's desktop
> without a speciality player, which then prevents you from ejecting the
> CD (apparently so that you can't insert a blank one...).

I have yet to hear of a player that can play two discs at once.
>
> Is this something that's been going on for a while and I just never
> noticed it being discussed, or is this yet another attempt to copy
> protect CDs?

It's another attempt to copy-protect CD's, and you never heard it
discussed. But strangely, you haven't experienced it either. This is
a good sign since most popular music just sucks. One of these days,
those record companies are going to start copy-protecting good music.
But hopefully long after we're dead, or can afford iPod Nanos.
>
> And wasn't there some sort of threat by the people who own the
> trademark on CD-ROM or some such thing that was threatened to be
> withdrawn if a vendor tried one of these nonsense copy protections?

some such thing.

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