The Irony of DRM
In the comments to my last post on this topic, I followed a link to this site, which explains how to defeat the stupid "protection" on EMI CD's. The irony? From the site:
Because I don't usually copy CDs, I found it a little ironic that the ‘copy control technology’ required me to make a copy of the album in order to use it. Since my experience with the 80s Alternative album, I have bought many other CDs, and the ones with copy control technology are the only ones I have copied.
The labels are just dumber than rocks.
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[Mousky] January 2, 2006 18:23:55.026
Add me to the list of users that end up copying copy-protected CDs. Some time ago, I purchased the latest Foo Fighters CD, In Your Honor. Unfortunately, it was copy-protected, meaning that I could not play it on my computer unless I installed some driver-level software. I don't think so. A search on Google led me to a forum on the Foo Fighters' website. A post pointed to another website. Ten mintues later I had ripped the original CD and copied the songs to a blank CD to play in my vehicles.
The original CD is somewhere in my house. It was one of three CDs I purchased in 2005. Back in my university days (late 80s), I used to buy at least one CD a week. But, I don't like being treated like a criminal (plus I have other priorties like kids, mortgage and car payments), so I buy very few CDs. Screw the RIAA.