it is not difficult to copy the CD, like you said with digital out and in the whole point is to use such tools like cdparanoia to make it easy. I know you can mount a music cd as a file system under BeOS and copy whatever you need. I don't think linux can do it at the time though. There is no way they can make a cd to be 100% copy protected, they are just trying to make it harder for an average aol user. On the other hand, I know a lot of people who did rip/downloaded music for maybe 2 months when napster came out but then they realized that it is not worth it to spend couple hours, download it to only find out that they have some low quality copy. Everybody knows that if you want good quality fast you have to have an access to a protected ftp site, but hey .. it was there before napster and the rest, it was there even before, when you borrowed records or cassettes from your friends and recorded it. Also, how much music people really need. After going through all the crap they are feeding us you will always come back to your old favorites (which would be nice if you can copy to play in you car for example, and preserve your original). Maybe the recording industry should look somewhere else for the reason of failing sales ... maybe listen to the radio ... tune ... creed alike music .... tune .... NSYNC (or however it is spelled ... tune ... creed alike ... tune ... NSYNC ... tune ... titney for change hell how many NSYNCs can you sell In some way I understand them though, now people can actually listen to the whole cd, not only the one song the radio plays 24 times/24h, and then decide if they want to spend $15, $20 or whatever. btw, you can return almost anything if you don't like it, this rule should apply to software and music cds too.
Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -----Original Message----- From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:56 AM To: Debian Users List Subject: Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ? On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:00:38PM -0500, John Cichy wrote: | Now for the dark side... how hard can it be to connect a digital out on the | cd player to a digital in on a computer and ... Can't be that hard, if you really do have a digital out and digital in. (I don't have any quality sound equipment. It's outside my field of expertise). The simplest counter-example would be to take your (high-quality) CD sound system to a studio and play the cd into the microphone. Then you can make your own cd that isn't protected :-). | When will the get it through their heads, if it can be secured, it can be | cracked! They'll understand as soon as managers become technicians. Did the DVD copy-protection group give up with the realization that if one player can play it, then anyone (with the right knowledge) can play it? -D -- He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God. John 8:47 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
