Will it mess up more complex cd players liek mp3/cd players? and how does it screw with your computer in the first place? artice at yahoo
A CD player will start at a certain sector on a disk, and follow the track sending a constant stream of data to the DAC. A computer reads each sector individually, and processes the data from each sector and sends it to the appropriate device., like RAM or your HDD. That I know for sure. Now I'm not sure about this next part, but knowing the first part, this how I assume it works. A copy protected CD basically has some sectors that will just cause a couple of milliseconds of silence when the DAC from a CD player decodes it, but when the computer reads that sector and processes it, it is an instruction to the computer to skip a large number of sectors, causing it to skip. It shouldn't cause any problems in a normal CD player OR an mp3/cd player, because they still read the CD like a normal CD player would. The copy protection could be circumvented by using an external source to play a cd, like a portable CD player, and linking it to the line-in jack on your soundcard with a male/male 1/8 inch stereo patch cord. Just record the tracks from the CD player to a .wav file on your computer, then encode it to an mp3. Hell, some CD ROM drives could probably even play it like a normal CD, just not copy it's data to another device.
I have not read this artical I will later today but assuming what piperazine is true this is ILLEGAL under the copy rights laws specifically the FAIR USE ACT which in part states you have the LEGAL right to COPY any material you LEGALLY purchase for back-up, I copy all of my Music on my HD and converted to MP3 for the sole use of Personal enjoyment and incase the CD is stolen, or broken I can reproduce it for my own use, with out having the repurchase the CD I just love how the music industry wants to Enforce 1/2 of the copyright law I think this is :bs:
Micheal: You're right. It is illegal, and there is much controversy about it in the industry... Not the record industry, the computer industry. :wtf: The record industry couldn't give half a shit about their customers rights. That's :bs:!
