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gha! its so annoying! when i play the new my morning jacket in itunes and import it its all scrambled. how do you get past the copywrite protection on this?

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

download the mp3s from someone on soulseek

― mike dixon, Thursday, 6 October 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I don't know which copy-protection scheme that particular cd uses, but many of them can be defeated simply by going into itunes' options and turning on error correction.

― telephone thing, Thursday, 6 October 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

yeah, slsk is a good idea...

the error correction didn't work

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Thursday, 6 October 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Get it on soulseek, then, and try returning it to the store for credit- and be sure to tell them why. If enough people make enough of a fuss about copy-protected "CDs" (which they technically aren't- Philips doesn't allow the use of the Compact Disc logo on them since they don't comply with the Redbook standard), hopefully the major labels will realize sooner that it's a fucking stupid idea that does nothing to stop mp3s getting out, and everything to piss off good customers who went out of their way to buy a physical copy.

― telephone thing, Thursday, 6 October 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Don't try, INSIST. It's a faulty product - you are entitled to your money back - and explain why.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 6 October 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Cranky pedantic non-answer: there's no such word as "copywrite".

(full flamewar ensues, 14 answers by morning)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

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