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Bought two copies yesterday, one each for Emma and me, cos, you know, we love 'em. But Emma's will only play in her laptop and not her Sony minisystem, mine will play fine in my Sony minisystem and walkman but not my Marantz CD player (plays from start to finish fine, but wont skip tracks past 7). It played fine on the old Denon CD player at work too. But nonetheless the Marantz is my main CD player and the fucker wont play properly on it and I am fucking furious, as is Emma. We'll check both discs in all the players when we get chance on Thursday night and see whether hers'll work in mine and vice versa, but if not do we risk the black-marker-pen thing? Or do we just copy the fuckers in analogue onto CDRs? This copy-protection malarkey hasn't affected me til now (the Spiritualized comp. plays fine wherever I've tried it), but to have one of the best albums of the year being awkward at me cos some cunt at some record company decided to get Protestant on my arse is not good. £24 for two CDs that don't work properly.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

sharpie can be removed with rubbing alcohol I think (test small area first).

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm yes - i copied mine on to my mac hard drive - so the copyright pretection doohickey doesnt even work either... so whats the bleedin point!?

and anyway it not one of the albums of the year tho it is good in parts!

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

not sharpie. dry erase marker, the kind for plastic message boards that wipes off with a kleenex. the ink just needs to be black, it don't need to be permanent.

― milton (Jon L), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i downloaded the song with odb and it was just a recording of silence
the fakes are easy to spot (in retrospect)cause there's hundreds of copies of the song,all in lower case

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

what do you mean fakes? i dont understand why people would put fakes out there - am i stupid?

― colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I find fakes ALOT more often these day - good luck with any new strokes or with outkast's 'church'

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess the record company stooges are the only ones who don't have their uploads turned off. C'mon you chickenshit Kazaa users!

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Re ODB: He wasn't into moving his lips that day.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

colin-record companies put up fakes so that people will be less inclined to bother downloading something if there is a chance it will just be silence/random noise

whether or not people will be more likely to buy the song instead remains to be seen

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Nick, I haven't had the problems you're having, but know of someone who couldn't play the Radiohead, Spiritualized, and something else on their CD players. The guy buys about 10 cds a week, and has a collection of a few thousand, so he wrote EMI to explain the problem with them, and ask if they could offer any guidance as to how he should solve the problem. They wrote back and told him to buy a new CD player. Idiots.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Sunday, 24 August 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Copy them, then take them back and demand a refund. It's your right. Go and see trading standards if they refuse.

― mei (mei), Monday, 25 August 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

absolutely - if they don't play properly you can get your money back.

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 25 August 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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