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Hey Sakke. This type of copy-protection is not new. The CD-info is recorded with crc-errors. Audio CD players have routines to skip or guess the bad info (so that they can deal with scratches or dirt on the CD), so you hardly notice it in the audio. From what I have read it seems that computer CD-Rom players don't have that feature, so they don't play, and can't read or copy the CD. 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.) Still, who buys music on little plastic discs anymore? All the more reason to use Gnutella - thanks for the incentive, recording industry! > i was just told in IRC that garbage's new album is protected with > method that is called SafeDisc. now, it's quite late in the nite, and > i'm going to bed - so i won't be looking out the facts for this mail. > so, i have no idea what kind of protection this is, or how it will > work. now, i'm very interested in this new garbage album - i'd like to > buy it.
