Copy protection on Yes "Fragile" reissue? (and list other CDs that seem to be copy protected here)

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Is anyone else's Yes "Fragile" 2003 Rhino reissue (with America and Roundabout Early Rough Mix as bonus tracks) copy protected? I've had two copies of it now and neither will play on my computer's disc drive, but play fine on everything else.
The same 2003 editions of "Close to the Edge" and "The Yes Album" don't seem to be afflicted, hmmm....

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Saturday, 19 March 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

That's odd. I picked up the Kasabian disc (for nine bucks!) yesterday, and it came with a sticker appended that reads: This CD is protected against unauthorised duplication. It is designed to play on standard playback devices and an appropriately configured computer (see system requirements on back). If you have questions or concerns visit www.sunncomm.com/support/bmg

I had no problem playing it on my computer, let alone ripping a coupe of tracks to my iTunes.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

There's no freakin sticker on "Fragile". A jihad on these clandestinely copy protecting fucks.

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Saturday, 19 March 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

I had problems playing the new Judas Priest, but that might be part of the "DualDisc" technology, not necessarily copy protection. When I burned it in my audio-only CD burner, I was able to import the burned version into iTunes no problem.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 19 March 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I can't load that copy-protected two-fer of PiL's first two albums into my computer. It fucks up my computer entirely and I have to manually shut it down.

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 March 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

And then I have to remove the discs as my computer's loading after I've started it up again.

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 March 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Usually if you don't try and import the first track of copy protected tracks it works (Which is okay for hiphop stuff with crappy intros)

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 20 March 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

The Donnas, "Spend The Night" is the only one that I've had this problem with, so far.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 20 March 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

These albums refuse to be recognized by my comp:

Pavement - CR,CR re-issue
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Mouse on Mars - Iahora Tahiti
Tom Waits - Real Gone

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 20 March 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

They must not do it to every disc, my "Real Gone" and "Spend the Night" seem fine.

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Sunday, 20 March 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

For me, just PJ Harvey's Uh Huh Her.

― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 20 March 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I have this feeling that it may be an issue of slight incompatibility of that pressing with your drive. I have that all the time on my system, but since I have both a DVD burner and a DVD-ROM, if it doesn't work on one of the drives in my system, I just flip it into the other drive and it usually works just fine.

Most of the discs that have "copy protection" loudly proclaimed on the disc itself, the copy protection is easily defeated...just close the program that loads up automatically, and then open up your usual disc -ripping software...most of the time it'll work just fine. If it's a dual-layer disc you might have issues on some drives, though, if it tries to default to the wrong layer every time.

Apparently you can defeat copy protection on a Mac by holding down the option key as you're inserting the disc. Or one of those keys, anyhow.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 20 March 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

I picked up the Kasabian disc

Weird, Alex, I wouldn't have thought they were your thing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 March 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

i've had exactly the same experience as alex: most recently with various mute records promos. THIS DISC IS COPY-PROTECTED! they scream. er: well how come i can get it on to the mac and then the iPod witout any hassle?

that said, in the past - i think with martin gore's counterfeit II - i've had problems.

i'm using mac os x and itunes ... as, i imagine, are millions of others. surely the copy protection can't be for wintel PCs only?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 20 March 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

i've never had a disc say ERROR: COPY-PROTECTED, on the CDs I mentioned above, my computer won't even recognize that there's a CD in the drive. It just whirs around and then stops :(

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah same here, it actually EJECTS the damn thing.

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I haven't yet come across this problem, although the LCD Soundsystem CD is supposed to be copy protected. I normally play it on the boombox or stereo, though, so don't really care if it plays in my computer drive or not.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Mainly, all CDs released on some EMI associated label will carry this annoying copy-protection.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

I picked up the Kasabian disc

Weird, Alex, I wouldn't have thought they were your thing.

I quite like the bass riff on "Club Foot".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

i couldn't play the kraftwerk tour de france soundtracks until i did the black texta thing. then it was a-ok.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

well, there's always your CD player ---audio/in---> your sound card / open up wave editing program, cut out tracks, tadah! copyright discs converted. Sure, it's more of a pain in the ass, and if it's too much of a pain, all it takes is a few other people to do this and do some P2P shmoozin'

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

there's only been one cd that absolutely refuses to cleanly rip (it will read ok in my pc but with crackle and noise throughout the disc), luckily it's by the not-very-good sizer barker and only cost me a fiver.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

I did finally manage to get the "Fragile"CD to rip but it has some of the aforementioned crackle on it, which really sucks for like, "Mood For A Day" especially. I might just end up looking for a previous edition in the used bins.

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

my computer won't even acknowledge supreme clientele. like it won't even admit there's a disc in the drive!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 21 March 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

that's my problem... have you tried it on other people's computers? I've had to rip them onto my friend's computer, burn a disc, and then transfer them to mine. taxing...

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 21 March 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

My computer apparently hates both Kompakt CDs I own, Kompakt 100 and now Superpitcher's Today. In both cases I was able to upload some of the songs to my hard drive before it whirred around a lot and refused to finish. And now it doesn't even recognize the CD when I put it in.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 21 May 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

So tenacity pays off, I guess. Over the last couple weeks, I've been feeding Superpitcher into my computer just to see if it will accept it. And after about 50 attempts, it finally worked again. So I was able to import the remaining three songs. I have no idea how I was able to circumvent the protection (if indeed that's what it is).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

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