"The Artist" wrote in message
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"Roy" emitted :

Have I been incredibly devious here? I wasn't trying to defeat the copy
protection, just watch it in action.


My experience is that the copy protection doesn't work. All it achieves
is
making the CD unplayable on many (usually high end) CD players. However,
if
you rip the tracks ('cos the protection doen't work) and burn your own
CD,
that plays perfectly.

Likewise. I have a couple of so-called protected discs that spit out
glitches in my CD player, spoiling my enjoyment of the product. I
backed them up in a few minutes and the backups play fine. This is
wrong on so many levels! In what kind of paradoxical world does it
make any sense to employ a copyright protection that necessitate the
rightful owner to hack it? ****ing idiots..

My policy in software development is to use absolutely minimal
protection. 60 seconds work to a cracker. The bottom line is if people
intend to pay for something, they will..



I beleive that the copy protection works by somehow inducing spurious errors
which confuse the error correcting circuitry.

What would be really ironic would be if a copied version actually sounded
better because the disk did not have these errors. I don't know if this is
actually the case though