I have to admit, I haven't bought a cd in over a decade, and the same goes for movies. In my line of work, you get to test different softwares for use by employees before its rolled out en mass.
Anyway...over the years have seen all sort of protection that were meant to stop people pirating, but they don't work, and it ends up taking some script kiddy to figure out how to get pass it. The latest being the dvd discs, and dvd writers.
http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4124252.stm
The emergence of Blu-Ray is just round the corner, and they have already started saying its going to be uncrackable, we just have to wait and see, won't we.
http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4122624.stm
Latest Fu Fighters CD has supposedly "uncrackable" coding so it can't be ripped.
I know a lot of kids are boycotting the album, supposedly because they like to make a copy for the car and keep the original safe. Some truth in that I suspect as I do that myself.
Anyway, I read about a day later that there was a pretty simple hack so you can then rip it and turn it into whatever format you like.
None of these anti-piracy measures do much more than slow things up for a few months or weeks.
I can't believe the industries are making such a big deal out of it these days when piracy has been around since we all recorded the top 40 on a Sunday from the radio! You didn't hear of anyone getting prosecuted for that back then! Same with the emergence of video recorders, no public prosecution for that! But now they want to block you from making copies of your legitimate copies, I wouldn't buy the Foo Fighters album either if I couldn't rip it for my MP3 player. evil
That's right, we *all* used to record stuff off the Top 40. Just because it's less people ripping and more people consuming they suddenly think it's all bad.
I still refuse to buy an album without testing it first. I have been burned too often in the past.
A lot of it though, is to do with downloading from the internet, a good example is the new coldplay album, that was available on the net a few days before the official release date, it's now number 1 in 28 countries.
There is a hack or key out there for whatever, you just have to know where to look, or what to do. You mention the top 40 from back in the days, the thing is, people were still going out and buying the albums/records, but now it's a different story.
The record execs are the only ones getting rich, and that is why they are trying to stop people doing it. The album in question by the foo fighters.....
Their so called protection is only a bruhaha, came across it within seconds last night.
The fact that despite being downloaded days before its release the new Coldplay album made #1 in 28 countries is surely a testimonial to p2p, not evidence against it. Pirate downloads don't count towards any chart! They downloaded it and went out and bought it!
Pilgrim,
A friend of mine bitched about the new anti-piracy thing on the Foo CD on line at 8 am.. by 3pm he had it cracked and has ripped a copy for his car!
The album by the foo, only has a couple of good songs on it, and the rest is pants really, don't see why they went to all that length to protect the album, because a few guys in my office that are into that, have got it too
You just answered your own question, Glas.
They know the album is pants so they make you go buy it on the strength of a couple of hits.
Not having heard it I can't say it is my opinion.
I love "Best of You" and usually most things the Foos do I dig, I am considering buying this one .. then again maybe I'll just have the kid downstate send me a copy.
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