Corrupted Audio CDs (53)
 'No More Music CDs Without Copy Protection,' Claims BMG Unit   - "BMG is at it again, this time apparently set on applying copy protection to all its music products." By John Lettice. [Register] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/06/no_more_music_cds_without/ 
BMG to Replace Anti-rip Natalie Imbruglia CDs - "Bertelsmann Music Group has had to back down on plans to force anti-rip technologies on British CD buyers." By Tony Smith. [Register] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/19/bmg_to_replace_antirip_natalie/
Register: 'Hi-fi Nuking' CD Technology Safe Claims Developer - Skeptical report on New Scientist's retraction of its warning that Cactus could damage speakers playing copied CDs. By Tony Smith. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/03/hifi_nuking_cd_technology_safe/
Register: Old Code Defeats New CD Anti-ripping Technologies - "Macrovision's SafeAudio and Midbar's Cactus - both new technologies designed to prevent CDs from being copied successfully - may have been defeated by software released over two years ago." By Tony Smith. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/10/old_code_defeats_new_cd/
Register: CD Anti-piracy System Can Nuke Hi-fi Kit - "Sony's Music Entertainment division has been testing an anti-piracy technology that at best renders illegally copied CDs unlistenable and at worse blows listeners' speakers." By Tony Smith. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/03/cd_antipiracy_system_can_nuke/
Register: 1M Anti-piracy Hi-fi Nuking CDs Hit Europe - "One million CDs have been released in Europe which are protected by the controversial anti-piracy system Cactus Data Shield... The Cactus Data Shield system is controversial because the technology could blow your hi-fi speakers." By Robert Blin - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/03/1m_antipiracy_hifi_nuking_cds/
Register: UK Campaigners Call for Anti 'Anti-rip' CD Day of Action - "Campaigners will take to the streets of Britain this Saturday (6 October) in a bid to raise public awareness of the music industry's attempts to prevent listeners from copying CDs or playing discs on PCs." By Tony Smith. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/10/04/uk_campaigners_call_for_anti/
Register: US Record Label Sued over Anti-rip CD Technology - "An unnamed Californian woman has sued US country music record label Fahrenheit Entertainment for allegedly misleading its customers by shipping CDs protected with an anti-rip mechanism." By Tony Smith. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/11/us_record_label_sued_over/
Register: Music Biz Patents Anti-rip Encryption Technology - "Details of the method appear in a patent filed by IFPI. The patent, GB2357165, centres on encrypting the track time codes stamped onto every music disc." By Tony Smith. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/17/music_biz_patents_antirip_encryption/
Register: Anti-rip CD System Bypassed - "Macrovision's SafeAudio technology, designed to prevent PC-owning music fans from ripping CD tracks onto their hard drives, has been bypassed." By Tony Smith. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/01/antirip_cd_system_bypassed/
CD Freaks: SafeAudio Explained and Should We Fear It? - How Macrovision's SafeAudio works and how to bypass it. - http://main.cdfreaks.com/article/48
New CD Protection Won't Play on PCs - "Israeli security company Midbar Tech is releasing 1 million copy-protected CDs in Japan as part of an aggressive push by record labels to curtail digital piracy." By Gwendolyn Mariano. [ZDNet] - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-852952.html
CNet: Protected CDs Quietly Slip into Stores - "Consumers in ordinary record stores are unwittingly buying CDs that include technology designed to discourage the making of digital copies." - http://news.com.com/2100-1023-270164.html
Customers Put Kibosh on Anti-Copy CD - "Complaints about anti-copying technology on Natalie Imbruglia's latest CD force her record label to issue replacements for angry consumers." By John Borland. [CNet] - http://news.com.com/2100-1023-276036.html
The Register - Congressman Assails CD Copy Protection - Copy protection tracks implanted in CDs are a violation of the right to fair use of purchased music, writes a US Representative to recording industry lobbyists. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/08/congressman_assails_cd_copy_protection/
NewOlde.com - How to Detect and Avoid Copy-Controlled CDs - Information for classical music listeners to help them identify Copy-Controlled CDs, including the graphics that appear on the packaging. - http://www.newolde.com/copy_controlled_cd.htm
Big Five Labels Sued Over Copy-Protected CDs - "Heightening the tension surrounding the music industry's efforts to guard its content in the digital realm, the five major record labels were hit with a class action lawsuit last week for producing and distributing CDs with copyright protection cont - http://www.itworld.com/Man/2683/020619cdcopy/
The Age - Copy Protected CDs: Artists Can Be the Losers - Article pointing out that music companies which use copy protection may be denying the artists under contract to them legitimate play time on radio stations. - http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/03/1048962867084.html
Slashdot -Stations Can't Play Crippled Music Disks - Reader comments on The Age article reporting that some radio stations are unable to play copy-protected CDs. - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/0031209
Metafilter - Community weblog discussing protected and corrupted audio cd's. - http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/9152
Copy Protection On CDs Is 'Worthless' - Reader comments on New Scientist article. [Slashdot] - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/2144242
Copy Protection on CDs is 'Worthless' - "The technology built into some CDs to stop people copying them is futile, according to a computer scientist who has put today's antipiracy systems under the microscope." By Barry Fox. [New Scientist] - http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993020
Philips Burning on Protection - "Officials for Netherlands-based Philips, which licenses the compact disc logo for both discs and players, went on a tirade against the recording industry for shipping discs with deliberate errors burned into them." By Paul Boutin. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50101,00.html
Special Report: Copy-Protected CDs - "How the labels are trying to stop you." [Rolling Stone] - http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=15990
Selling the Benefits - "If DVD-A and/or SACD are to supplant CD, not only do their features have to be transformed into benefits, but the benefits consumers currently enjoy with CD need to be preserved." By John Atkinson. [Stereophile] - http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?681
Copy-Protected CDs a Nightmare for BMG Germany - "Blaming a falloff in CD sales on the popularity of CD burners, BMG Germany recently issued approximately 100,000 copy-protected discs in an attempt to thwart the problem--and had to take a substantial portion of them back because consumers said the - http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?671
Philips: Don't Mess with the CD! - "According to Philips, recent attempts to add playback restriction technology to new releases is not just a bad idea: Because the Red Book recipe has been altered, the discs no longer qualify as CDs and should be labeled clearly." By Jon Iverson - http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1247
Record Labels Beware - Study suggests that, if the music industry wants to experiment with selling copy-protected CDs, "there [must] be mandatory warning labels on the CDs or the industry risks seriously alienating consumers." By Jon Iverson. [Stereophile] - http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1482
Consumer Claims Victory in CD Lawsuit - "Makers of a recording by country-pop singer Charley Pride have agreed to stop tracking most listener habits and to warn consumers that the CD is not compatible with MP3 and other players, according to attorneys for a woman who sued the companies.&qu - http://news.com.com/2100-1023-843114.html
Consumers in Crossfire of Labels' War on Piracy - "The downside of copy-protected music CDs? Some won't play when consumers get them home." By Aaron Pressman. [Christian Science Monitor] - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0304/p18s01-wmcn.html
CD Technology Stops Copies, But It Starts a Controversy - "The recording industry has begun selling music CD's designed to make it impossible for people to copy music to their computers, trade songs over the Internet or transfer them to portable MP3 players." By Amy Harmon. [New York Times] - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/technology/01PROT.html
BMG Stops Producing CDs - "The Register has a new story about claims by Bertelsmann that they'll stop manufacturing uncrippled audio CDs." News and reader comments. [Slashdot] - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/1312259
AOL Seeks Manager for Anti-Copying Push - "AOL Time Warner is beginning efforts to add copy protection to CDs, underscoring the company's desire to limit unsanctioned digital distribution of its musical works." By Jim Hu. [CNet] - http://news.com.com/2100-1023-858181.html
Hey, Big Five - Copyright This! - "A class action lawsuit has been filed against the five major record labels for manufacturing and distributing defective or dysfunctional compact discs." News and reader discussion. [Plastic] - http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/06/19/19130151
Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs - News about Celine Dion CDs killing iMacs and black markers or sticky notes defeating some "copy-protection" schemes. Reader discussion. [Slashdot] - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/14/0040215
Felt Tip Marker Defeats Copy-Protected CDs - News and reader discussion. [Slashdot] - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/22/1439253
Another Class Action Over Crippled Music Disks - News brief and reader discussion. [Slashdot] - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/0250258
Lawsuit Challenges Copy-Protected CDs - "The five major record companies have been hit with a class-action lawsuit charging that new CDs designed to thwart Napster-style piracy are defective and should either be barred from sale or carry warning labels." [Reuters] - http://news.com.com/2100-1023-936527.html
Lawsuit Challenges Copy-protected CDs - Reader discussion of Reuters article. [Slashdot] - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/17/1435211
Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers - "Celine Dion's latest CD will not play in computer drives. In fact: 'Should the consumer try to play Dion's CD on a PC or Macintosh, the computer likely will crash.'" News and reader discussion. [Slashdot] - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/03/226233
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