RE: 'copy protected Cd`s' destroy firmware

[Miller, Jeffrey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William T Goodall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:45 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 'copy protected Cd`s' destroy firmware
> 
> 
> on 14/5/02 11:51 pm, Andrew Crystall at 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > On 14 May 2002 at 15:36, Jon Gabriel wrote:
> > 
> >> The Star Wars soundtrack has been available on the 
> >> alt.binaries.sounds.mp3s newsgroup for at least a month.  
> Somehow I 
> >> doubt any copy-protection schemes the companies can come 
> up with will 
> >> prevent a truly determined person from ripping them.
> > 
> > If it can be heard, it can be recorded.
> 
> Well, that's true of course. The problem is if someone wants 
> to make a lossless digital copy rather than resample the 
> output from the DAC.

easy - play it on a CD player with a digital out and route that into a
DAT with digital inputs.  The remainder of the process is left as an
exercise for the reader ;)

-j-