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"Influence" may not work, but can be swapped

posted by davidt on Friday July 11 2003, @10:00AM
Dan B. Pearl writes:

Many users here will have been mortified -- or enraged -- to find that their CD copy of Under the influence won't play on their computer, car stereo or other device. Especially if they don't even have the kind of CD player the technology works with, or if they want to listen to it on their iPods, or while working on their computer, or whatever.

Well, one of the finest bloggers on the web took action:
I sent off a letter of complaint to DMC. Today, I received an email from them, apologising for the situation and offering to mail me a newly pressed Red Book-compliant copy of the CD (sans artwork/liner notes) to replace the drink coaster I had purchased. Now that's what I call customer service.

nb: Morrissey's is not the only album crippled in this way, but people are doing something about it.
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  • and then took it back to the shop because it wouldn't play on my CD player which i bought in January this year. They must be mental if they think they're going to make money by selling fake goods. I learnt later that I could have listened to it with the aid of a black marker pen. This information was given to me along with a bootleg copy. So I didn't bother buying a new one.
    paulybob <[email protected]> -- Friday July 11 2003, @10:30AM (#68368)
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  • rumour has it that CD-Wow(an online CD shop) have been told by EMI and other major record companies that if they identiry on their site which CDs have copy protection on them then they will not supply them with any CDs at all (i.e. probably close their busines down). Don't you just hate big corporate scumbags!

    Note: CD Copy Protection is what stops the CD being able to be played on some CD players and also make the CD more serceptable to small scratches
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @11:16AM (#68380)
  • yeah i thought whats going on here, but i thought i`ll try it in my computer anyway, and guess what it played ok
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @12:43PM (#68401)

  • For Mac Users (Score:2, Informative)

    To play or import an EMI Copy Controlled CD, you need to make sure iTunes doesn't automatically launch upon music CD insertion (that's the 'ignore' option).

    This can be done via the CDs & DVDs System Preferences panel.

    If you launch iTunes after the disc is in, everything is sweet.

    Copy Control is still a flakey technology, but is specifically designed to prevent digital encodement of music, rather than straight 'burning' of it.

    Shame it doesn't even work.
    BBC Scum -- Friday July 11 2003, @07:39PM (#68466)
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