Copy-Protected CDs Quietly Released
by This is pretty disturbing to me. I store almost my entire music collection on my computer at home, and bring copies with me in my car, and on my laptop to work. I rarely listen to original CDs anymore. For many people, before CDs and MP3s became popular, creating mixed tapes and copying tapes was, and still is, a normal practice, and is legally protected. But, the music industry has a problem with people being able to make near perfect digital copies of CDs. Here is a story on News.com about how Copy-Protected CDs have been quietly released onto the market over the past six months.
"... the tests also take aim at the basic consumer practice of copying CDs to a computer for personal use without ever trading the songs with others. Although this is a familiar--and legally protected--task in the world of cassette tapes, the legality of creating music collections on a personal computer is more cloudy.
If the Macrovision tests prove successful and the technology is widely adopted, the ability to create personal music collections on PCs, or to create mixed CDs from purchased CDs, may significantly diminish."
Supposedly, when you try to make a copy of one of these CDs, you will hear annoying clicks and pops in the music. Who wants that? Click here to read more.
How do you guys feel about this? Do any of you guys out there make your own mixed CDs or make MP3s from CDs you buy? Anyone else think this stinks as bad as I do?
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that is so annoying, although now I know why a bunch of the songs on my computer have those annoying clicks. What makes it even more annoying is that one of the ones I had this problem with is Goldfinger's latest album, so this is even seeping into to the punk scene. I guess really you can't blame them for doing this though, they would rather have you buy the music than be able to get it for free, even though I hate paying for all the music i listen to. It is good to support the bands you like however and buy their stuff when you can, it's just that there are SO MANY good bands out there that it's impossible to buy everything that you want. It's a no win situation for everybody.
I'd like to hear one of those MP3s with the clicks you're talking about.
But, I think you're missing the point a little bit on this one. Take the Internet and trading music out of the picture here. You won't be able to make quality copies of the CDs for perfectly legal listening in an MP3 player. I've been doing that for years. I would hate to have to go back to listening to CDs. It's so much easier to just do a quick browse for the music you want than to have to dig through CDs and jewel cases looking for the one you want.
My main problem here is convenience.
no ian, i think that YOU are missing the point. You obviously just skimmed my comment without really reading into it's deeper meanings. Talk about making me feel like a loser! Anyways........ yeah that does make sense, convenience is an issue here. But I don't think that this whole cd copying thing will be that big of a problem. if enough people get annoyed about hearing blips in their music, they will make record companies put a stop to it, i mean its enough that they wont let people trade music online right?
It seems that all these dumb record companies are jumping on the bandwagon with "protection" crap. I actually heard that the companies were planning on doing somethign like that, but i didnt know it would be so soon or with something so stupid. Figures, they need to get their money SOME way.
I think it stinks WORSE than you, ian.
Well, it's a good thing we don't know anyone that has ANY illegal copies of MP3 that they downloaded off Napster or got from their friends rather than purchasing the CD. Yep, that is sooo terrible that those mean music companies are going overboard trying to protect their intellectual property. Bullies.
i never did steal music, nor will i associate with a person who would sink to such a low level
I agree, they have every right to protect their IP. But, don't I have every right to listen to a CD I purchase in whatever format I want to? Especially if I purchase the CD expecting to be able to convert it to a specific format. They are releasing these protected CDs quietly, meaning, there's no indication on the packaging that you won't be able to make digital copies of the CD. So, essentialy, you end up purchasing a "broken" CD.
yup!