Rant on copy protection (sorry!)

**Roy** · October 8th 04, 07:36 AM posted to uk.rec.audio

"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.

**Ian Molton** · October 8th 04, 08:52 AM posted to uk.rec.audio

Andy Hewitt wrote:

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

Cobblers. the *sourcecode* for one, perhaps.

**Tat Chan** · October 9th 04, 10:54 AM posted to uk.rec.audio

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.

**Ian Molton** · October 9th 04, 12:58 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

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)