Community weblog discussing protected and corrupted audio cd's.
Fat Chuck's maintains a list of corrupt CDs. Reader comments and discussion. [Slashdot]
"[BMG Germany] was faced with a backlash from consumers complaining that some of the copy-protected CDs were unplayable."
"The music industry is now testing different copy protection systems on mass market chart CDs, with copies of NSync's Celebrity on the Zomba label being sold in at least three different versions."
"Campaigners will take to the streets of Britain this Saturday (6 October) in a bid to raise public awareness of the music industry's attempts to prevent listeners from copying CDs or playing discs on PCs." By Tony Smith.
"NSync's new CD will be released in a least 3 different versions (with different copy protection techniques)." News and reader comments.
"An unnamed Californian woman has sued US country music record label Fahrenheit Entertainment for allegedly misleading its customers by shipping CDs protected with an anti-rip mechanism." By Tony Smith.
How Macrovision's SafeAudio works and how to bypass it.
"Macrovision's SafeAudio technology, designed to prevent PC-owning music fans from ripping CD tracks onto their hard drives, has been bypassed." By Tony Smith.
"The first copy-protected audio CD in the US will be released in April. The CD is a tribute to country singer Jim Reeves performed by Charley Pride."
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