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Re: What Now?
#106749 08/04/05 05:29 PM
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Sony's suggestion was to install the music player that auto-installs from the cd, burn the lossy WMA files to cd (thereby using one of your limited number of burns), and then re-rip to mp3. No thanks.

For me, asking Sony how they suggest getting around their DRM was a theoretical exercise anyway. I already knew I was going to return the CD regardless of what Sony said, even though it would work perfectly on my Mac or on my linux box. I just can't pay money for a product that doesn't work how I want it to work.

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Re: What Now?
#106750 08/04/05 06:16 PM
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To defeat any of the older copyright software, all you had to do was hold down the shift key when inserting the cd.



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Re: What Now?
#106751 08/04/05 06:40 PM
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I wonder how long it will take someone to figure out that just pressing shift or writing on the disc with a sharpie will defeat the DRM.

I use EAC to rip and LAME to encode and I've been able to rip everything I've purchased. Has anyone found a list of CDs that have this DRM on them?

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Re: What Now?
#106752 08/04/05 11:45 PM
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Bray and James,
I wish it was as easy as holding down "shift". That will keep the player from autoinstalling, but through some programming magic Sony has managed to hide the music on the cd unless you do install their special player. You can't navigate to it from Windows Explorer (even when viewing hidden files) nor does Winamp recognize it as a music cd. I have no doubt that someone far smarter than me will figure out how to defeat it, but unfortunately it will be more difficult than holding down the shift key.

Re: What Now?
#106753 08/05/05 01:24 PM
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Well from what I've gathered, the new Sony CDs aren't even "Audio CDs" because they don't conform to the Redbook standard. They're somehow close enough that they'll still play in CD players though.

According to the various online sounces that have said anything about it though, the only platform that the protection works against is Windows. Have you tried ripping it on a Mac or Linux box?


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