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> Why it's bad: well, any extra errors for genuine scratches might > make the audio unlistenable. Second, what if you want to play > your CDs on your PC CDROM? Third I think you can argue that > the quality is not as good as a non-copy-protected CD, but that > probably doesn't bother most people. > But it's hardly a big deal against real CD pirates, or even the > public once people write software to get around it. (I doubt it's > difficult, just a matter of convincing the player to send raw data - > the old SCSI CDROM in my Amiga could do it, at least.) Plus there are programs that can be used to copy CD's, no matter if they have Safedisc (tm), LockBlok (tm), Laserlock (tm) or any such protection system. All of the methods I mentioned use faulty sectors to render CD's unusable in normal CD-ROM players. For example, many programs (such as blindsuite programs Blindread and Blindwrite and many more) first make an exact image of the CD copied (so all track errors and such are recorded) and then burn the image to the target CD-R. The resulting CD is a perfect or almost perfect replica of the source CD. So my conclusion is that any such methods of protection are just a pain in the arse for "normal, honest everyday users." > Still, who buys music on little plastic discs anymore? All the more > reason to use Gnutella - thanks for the incentive, recording industry! I might be wrong, but I believe Gnutella is used to spread mp3's? I honestly would like to see Ogg Vorbis encoded files get more used, and finally make mp3 encoding obsolete. [mttklrv]
