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Have recently got Starsailor Album from Cd-Wow and it has a Copy Control Sticker on it.

It still plays on pc but i can`t play it in media player.

Does the UK version also have copy control or is it just the ones from cd-wow?

I got another new album from cd-wow and it also has it, so i don`t know whether copy control is just becoming more popular!

Thanks.

What`s the albumn like? I have just ordered a copy from Cd-wow. I bought the first albumn ....and really liked it. Me and the Missus are off to see them in concert on the 23rd September.....in Leeds.

Gaz

"It`s better to burn out ......than fade away" - Neil Young

Mine wont play in the car ...what a pain in the arse!

"It`s better to burn out ......than fade away" - Neil Young

Is this the same copy control as Radioheads new album Hail to the thief?cos i cant play that in my car or copy the disc into my p.c to play as mp3s on my malkman!its a bummer considering i`ve paid my money for an official release and can only play it indoors! :/

I no doubt there will be a device to work round the copy control someday.

floyd
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I`ve got the new Jane`s Addiction CD which has Copy Control.
I found various forum`s which said what software to use and how to copy, nothing worked for me, aparnetly some CD-ROMs are better than other`s for it!

Anyway, my PC read the CD OK, so I used cdex (free mp3 program from cdexos.sourceforge.net/ to rip the CD to .wavs, then burned them as an audio CD.

CD now plays in fiddly CD players.

There`s apparently lots of ppl up in arms saying how can they sell a CD which will only play in certain CD players, and not necessarily PCs, games consoles etc.

I think Philips went as far as to say they will have to investigate because if it is choosy, then it can`t be sold as a CD!

hope that helps anyway

Al

It seems that most non UK supplied CDs are being copy controlled. This is a real pain as we`ve no idea whether they are or not until they arrive. For those of us who have players which will not take one of these bastardised CDs, it`s unacceptable.

I ordered Nickleback`s latest and it was protected with Cactus Data Shield. It`s my second disc and I decided to break it and e-mail them saying I`d copied the CD :) Anyways, took a bot of searching and trial and error (and a couple of test machines) and I now have a copy protection free disk that I can rip to put on my Sony NetMD.

there was something in the news about copy protected cd`s last year saying that they cant be called cd`s if they cannot be played in all cd equipment, i would demand my money back!, fair enough f it dont play in a pc but it should play in all other cd players includin car ones, as for getting round copying them, i usually record the copy protected ones using my stand alone cd recorder which doesnt pick up computer data such as copy protection

Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
The Darkness - Permission To Land
Jane`s Addiction - Strays
My last three purchases and ALL copy protected. I have a Sony Net minidisc player, so there`s not a hope of doing a straight copy/back up with the pish poor software that comes with the unit. It really does suck the big one that once you have paid for your music, you can`t back it up to another format - especially annoying as you can`t buy an official release on minidisc anyway. Is it any wonder P2P music `swapping` is so rife!

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