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Craig1982
19th July 2001, 23:00
Check this page out, if you haven't already heard...

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6604222.html
NeoRenegade
20th July 2001, 06:44
I've experience 2 CD's that wouldn't play on my home player. They must have been part of this *yet another failed attempt at copyright protecting CD's*.

They were Aerosmith's Just Push Play and the Gorillaz self-titled album. They ripped just fine :D
Bilbo Baggins
21st July 2001, 09:34
More nonsense...
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21st July 2001, 11:07
I agree - as long as the CD plays back without distortion on a home player, there will be workarounds to convert these tracks to mp3.
fish
21st July 2001, 12:34
Easy - just play it in analog (Play it from your stereo) into the Line In on your 'puter and then just record the Line In data on to the HDD...


I just dunno if VBR would work with that, though......
s1138
21st July 2001, 12:59
oh who cares? in a few months someone will find a crack, and everyone except the record company will be happy.
NeoRenegade
22nd July 2001, 20:15
Knowing the past and present stupidity of the recording and film industries, the protecion is probably aimed at the Xing encoder :D:D:D
dlinkwit27
26th July 2001, 15:26
My Gorillaz CD played just fine in my player.
NeoRenegade
27th July 2001, 05:56
My player is just a piece of fuck though. It can hardly play those 2 CD's at all... I have to fuck with the thing like 20 times to make it finally start playing the CD.

For Just Push Play I finally gave up and burnt a copy of it.

Imagine that, burning copies of my own damn CD's now!
Craig1982
27th July 2001, 23:34
lmao :eek: