RE: 'copy protected Cd`s' destroy firmware

[Miller, Jeffrey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reggie Bautista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:32 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: 'copy protected Cd`s' destroy firmware
> 
> 
> Somebody wrote:
> > > > 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 ;)
> > >
> 
> Someone else responded:
> > > Wrong.  The CD players that would put out a digital 
> signal are the 
> > > same ones that wont play these corrupted discs, precisely because 
> > > the digital information on the disc is corrupted.
> > >
> >
> To which someone else replied:
> >I've seen nothing about -that- mentioned in this thread or any urls 
> >posted.  You're saying that the CD player on my rack won't 
> play these 
> >discs?
> 
> If you have a stand-alone CD player that has a digital output (some 
> stand-alone CD-R machines do), it should play the protected 
> cd fine, but if 
> your only CD with access to a digital out is in your computer, you're 
> screwed.

Ah - I /was/ talking about my component player ^_^

-j-