Comments on: Foo Fighters - In Your Honor - Copy Protection http://www.iamspencer.com/2005/06/15/foo-fighters-in-your-honor-copy-protection/ music, politics, sports, etcetera Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:30:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anonymous http://www.iamspencer.com/2005/06/15/foo-fighters-in-your-honor-copy-protection/#comment-21 Anonymous Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:52:00 +0000 http://www.marketinghead.com/iamspencer/?p=23#comment-21 I have a Hoodoo Gurus CD that also has copy protection. To circumvent this, you can copy the CD using Exact Audio Copy, which will skip the bad data areas and eventually give you a clean CD. No need to go to Windows Media and then back! Of course, the copy protections might be slightly different but in general the way it's most prevalent is to include "scratches" in the data stream that an audio CD player processes as part of its error processing circuitry. PC CD players of course see this data and give you hiccups. You should be able to play the CD in winamp and hear the fake glitches.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('21','Anonymous'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('21','Anonymous','I have a Hoodoo Gurus CD that also has copy protection. To circumvent this, you can copy the CD using Exact Audio Copy, which will skip the bad data areas and eventually give you a clean CD. No need to go to Windows Media and then back!\n\nOf course, the copy protections might be slightly different but in general the way it\'s most prevalent is to include \"scratches\" in the data stream that an audio CD player processes as part of its error processing circuitry. PC CD players of course see this data and give you hiccups. You should be able to play the CD in winamp and hear the fake glitches.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I have a Hoodoo Gurus CD that also has copy protection. To circumvent this, you can copy the CD using Exact Audio Copy, which will skip the bad data areas and eventually give you a clean CD. No need to go to Windows Media and then back!

Of course, the copy protections might be slightly different but in general the way it’s most prevalent is to include “scratches” in the data stream that an audio CD player processes as part of its error processing circuitry. PC CD players of course see this data and give you hiccups. You should be able to play the CD in winamp and hear the fake glitches.

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]]> By: Michael Amor Righi http://www.iamspencer.com/2005/06/15/foo-fighters-in-your-honor-copy-protection/#comment-20 Michael Amor Righi Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:44:00 +0000 http://www.marketinghead.com/iamspencer/?p=23#comment-20 To make things worse, RCA/Sony BMG's DRM software is basically impossible to remove from a Windows computer. In fact, it would appear that the only way to totally remove their software once it’s been installed is to format your hard drive. I shared my experience with this problem here: <a HREF="http://www.michaelrighi.com/2005/06/20/use-sony-drm-format-your-hard-drive/" rel="nofollow">Use Sony DRM, Format Your Hard Drive</A><div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('20','Michael Amor Righi'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('20','Michael Amor Righi','To make things worse, RCA\/Sony BMG\'s DRM software is basically impossible to remove from a Windows computer.\n\nIn fact, it would appear that the only way to totally remove their software once it’s been installed is to format your hard drive. I shared my experience with this problem here: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrighi.com\/2005\/06\/20\/use-sony-drm-format-your-hard-drive\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Use Sony DRM, Format Your Hard Drive<\/A>'); return false;">Quote</a></div> To make things worse, RCA/Sony BMG’s DRM software is basically impossible to remove from a Windows computer.

In fact, it would appear that the only way to totally remove their software once it’s been installed is to format your hard drive. I shared my experience with this problem here: Use Sony DRM, Format Your Hard Drive

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]]> By: Merujo http://www.iamspencer.com/2005/06/15/foo-fighters-in-your-honor-copy-protection/#comment-19 Merujo Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:27:00 +0000 http://www.marketinghead.com/iamspencer/?p=23#comment-19 The Washington Post just ran a very interesting article yesterday about how the new anti-burning/ anti-copying/ anti-piracy software is going to kill the tradition of the "mix cd". Grrr.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('19','Merujo'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('19','Merujo','The Washington Post just ran a very interesting article yesterday about how the new anti-burning\/ anti-copying\/ anti-piracy software is going to kill the tradition of the \"mix cd\". Grrr.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> The Washington Post just ran a very interesting article yesterday about how the new anti-burning/ anti-copying/ anti-piracy software is going to kill the tradition of the “mix cd”. Grrr.
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