Rant on copy protection (sorry!)
 

"Glenn Booth" wrote in message
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Since it was 'copy protected' I thought I'd have a look at it on a PC. I
put it in the DVD burner, said "get stuffed" to BMGs kind offer of
installing some player software on the PC, and fired up EAC. Eleven
minutes later there are a dozen or so perfectly formed .wav files sat on
my hard disc. Some copy protection that is.

Yep, I've posted the same rant myself in the past. Strange isn't it, how the
"Copy Protection" prevents the disc being played and yet you can rip the
tracks off it and burn a CDR which does!!

I reckon "Software r us" saw them coming.

Roy.

Rant on copy protection (sorry!)
 

Andy Hewitt wrote:

20 odd megabytes is less than a decent web browser now!

Cobblers. the *sourcecode* for one, perhaps.

Rant on copy protection (sorry!)
 

Ian Molton wrote:

Andy Hewitt wrote:

20 odd megabytes is less than a decent web browser now!


Cobblers. the *sourcecode* for one, perhaps.

Nope. Mozilla binary installations are about 12MB.

Rant on copy protection (sorry!)
 

Tat Chan wrote:
Ian Molton wrote:

Andy Hewitt wrote:

20 odd megabytes is less than a decent web browser now!



Cobblers. the *sourcecode* for one, perhaps.


Nope. Mozilla binary installations are about 12MB.

well, on *MY* planet, 12 is less than 20. and IIRC, firefox is about a 5
MB download.

for reference, btw, a dynamically linked firefox binary is ~300KB IIRC.

mozilla source is ~30MB.

(I win, ner ner)