"Woody" wrote in message
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"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..



--
S i g n a l @ l i n e o n e . n e t


At the end of the day piracy would drop out of sight overnight if the
greedy
record companies marketed their products at a more acceptable price. It
is
widely known that on a full price CD the shop makes about £3, the artists
gets about £1, and the disc costs about 98p to produce and bring to the
shelf. Most of the rest of the cost is record company profit.

Incidently the £3 or more to the dealer goes back to the early days of
CDs
when dealers took a bigger cut because of the need to hold stocks of slow
moving high value items. Today (vinyl) LPs and singles no longer exist
and
CDs fly out of the door, so why do they still need to make so much
profit?
Given their huge buying power and slim margins, I still doubt the likes
of
Asda are selling them as loss leaders at £9.87 when the list price is
13-15
quid!

Woody


Hats off to Naxos then for retailing an incredibly wide range for just
£4.95.

Alan