My Sony stereo comes with a limited copy protection. I admit to not quite having researched this properly before buying. The limitation is basically on not making second-generation digital copies: among other things, it forbids me to copy CD-Rs to MiniDisc. It does, however, allow original CD media to MiniDisc copying. ... or so I thought.
Massive Attack's new album 100th Window is copy protected with some weird mechanism rendering it useless on many players and, I disappointingly found out, it renders it uncopy-able on my Sony, despite playing fine if I try to play it, and despite my attempt being a "first generation", legal copy. Go figure.
I'm not sure whether to complain to Sony for having a defective mechanism for detecting copies, or to complain to Massive Attack. One thing is for sure: I'll listen less to their music, I'll probably not buy any new albums they might release in the future, and seeing that I can't enjoy their music when and where I want, I probably won't get so attached to it that I would show up on any of their concerts, if they were to have any in Norway/London, UK/France or nearby where I would be at the time.
I am a large consumer of CDs, DVDs and related products. I spend good money on music. Who loses on this copy protection rubbish? Everybody! I want to take my music on the road (or in my case, in the air). If more CDs will implement this mechanism in the future, I will simply not buy them; how is that for a business plan?
(some links via PMcG)
This is just an suggestion. There is one way to avoid the problem, if you can get an audio out from your system you should be ble to get a copy of your cd's over to md. I reccon you have to have a portable md for this since your soundsystem is integrated.
Posted by: belze on May 22, 2003 10:44 PM|
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