Since I can't realistically listen to two copies simultaneously, they are infringing my rights to Fair Use. I am allowed by law to make one copy of anything I buy in case the original gets destroyed.
These record companies need to realise that not just Windows users buy CDs and not all Windows users use WMP. In other words, you are perfectly within your rights to return the disc to the shop and demand your money back, since the shop sold you something they said was a CD and actually isn't. When a manufacturer distributes a disc that does not conform to these standards, that disc cannot be called a "CD" (to mean Compact Disc). The phrase "CD" means Compact Disc and is a standard. (anyone remember all the DRM crap they are trying to get integrated into the ATAPI spec?) Microsoft is also gung-ho on this stuff because they want to be a distribution channel, and need a secure means to do it. What worries me more is the purchasing of our legislators. If the record companies want to try to use this copy control cd tech, I say let them if they think it will actually do anything.
(need babelfish unless you can read japanese)Ĭopy control can never work unless the hardware and software makers are complicit. The extra track with the copy control dreck showed on my desktop but it didn't harm anything.
The CD does not in fact have the official compact disc logo anywhere on the disc itself or the package (The disc I have in question is Cyber Trance Presents Ayu Trance 2) I put it into my new PB 12" (10.2.4 installed) and it mounted and imported just fine.
The one Avex uses is the Midbar tech cactus shield. I'm sorry for this extended rant that trailed off into something completely off-topic, but this PISSES me OFF to no end!!Īvex Japan is pulling this same crap. Should be sent down to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba with the rest of the terrorists and beaten to a pulp, with no attorney privileges, no trial. So 5 million people ought to be put in jail right now for breaking the law, including all employees and shareholders of Apple Computer, Inc.
Oh yes, this also means iTunes itself is a circumvention device. You can expect the FBI to break down your door and arrest you. Oh by the way, what you just described is a workaround against an access control device. Then again, are you saying the first 10 seconds of the first song are cut off? Call me nitpicky and/or a purist, but to me that's not even acceptable. Return it for a refund! The more of us who do this, the more (perhaps) they might get the message that this crap is unacceptable! (In the meantime, rip it anyway so you can continue to listen to it while you're waiting for them to release a non-broken version :)