Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:08:31 -0500 From: Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems With New Audio CD Message-ID: <4BBD025F.4040902@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> In-Reply-To: <86bpdv3q35.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <4BBCBFDA.5060904@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4BBCC3EC.7030805@daleco.biz> <4BBCE0D3.7080001@daleco.biz> <4BBCED9C.1060101@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <86bpdv3q35.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 04/07/10 16:33, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> writes: >> So it's safe to assume this CD is copy protected. > > I have a couple of "copy-protected" CDs here that I bought by accident (I > wouldn't have bought them if I knew they were "protected"). > > They have two things in common: > > 1) They won't play in my HiFi DVD player > 2) I had zero trouble ripping them (using iTunes on Windows XP) > > I don't remember if I ever tried to rip them using FreeBSD or Linux. > > So copy protection does not, in fact, prevent copying, but it does > prevent some legitimate use cases, even the kind of use cases that the > labels *do* want to allow. > > DES I don't use iTunes (and refuse to do so for various reasons, mostly having to do with my opinion of Jobs and Apple in general). I'm going to try Winamp on XP tonight. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLvQJxAAoJEENZQ8DH7rW0rjsH/Rvov952UdNTVH//n3plkApx t2xrhs05IOc660ue/Q4kLkbsaLe88DHpXSE1LEADIlkRHHPqgMR/43+ZCE9pvwQJ 00vP9CGTHvx3u9AOkbfVqYCGzuekWadWDJLMw4slIyVTZT7wwpB8k8hdl2n2Wuv/ qHGL4azNo6MdO++N2qr1LjFvtZLgUb30MJ1OidPxlLzHTz5L687LM2NIHx7uH/Ow bjUtjxe4IvwRD8B/T00rl/04y8qMYhO5FtbQbkXNAUhQZ1ysQnAXtM3Wec1mkIST MWJXCdwOp2kwP3DcddrnjG28DQvoPwJMWLKe5T/s91zDDex2rJdKiglfSjk4KE0= =KLQM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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