[linux-audio-user] Cactus Data Shield copy controlled cd's

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Maarten de Boer hat gesagt: // Maarten de Boer wrote:

> A collegue of mine just bought the new Radio Head CD, Hail To The Thief.
> As the box says, this CD is "Copy Controlled". Some searching on the web
> revealed that it using so called Cactus Data Shield 200 protected, which
> means deliberate errors on the cd, that most (not all!) CD players deal
> with correctly, but cd-rom readers don't. 

Hey, you are even lucky. Here in Germany almost every domestic CD by a
major label now has some kind of copy control. Normally I just don't
buy these, I even pay a higher price for the imported vinyl version. 

But then Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout made his first solo album
which is just unearthly beautiful and as a big PS fan I had to buy the
copy destroyed CD version because there is no vinyl one. I didn't
bother trying to rip it and put it straight away in my old Sony hifi
player. Now guess what happened: The first track which is about 25
minutes long and the center piece in the whole album is badly
distorted and sounds like a non-patched Linux kernel giving only
xruns! And this in a standard mass produced CD player by Sony! 

I cannot even give the CD back, because as a collector I just need to
*have* it. :( 

My only chance was trying to rip it and indeed cdparanoia managed to
produce clean sounding wav files which I reburned to CD. With things
like this it's no wonder the music industry is going down. They are
mistreating their paying good-willing customers. I didn't post high
quality ogg files of the album into a p2p network, but I was very much
tempted to do just that.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__