How to tell if a CD is copy controlled before buying?

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I'm driving myself crazy trying to find a definitive list of copy-protected European CDs, with no luck. Does anyone have such a list, or failing that, know if the new Sebastien Tellier Sessions live album is copy-controlled? Record Makers won't respond to email enquiries.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 22 May 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

I have an answer but it involves bringing your laptop into the store and opening up the CD there.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 22 May 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

No can do, alas. Plane tickets to France are a bit out of my price range at the moment.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 22 May 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

Don't they have some kind of bullshit "FBI PROTECTED" style logo on the back?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 May 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

I hear that you can take a marker and convert copy protected CDs to non-copy-protected. Just get an average black sharpie marker, and write,

FUCK YOU RIAA!!!!!

all over the playing surface. Then it'll rip just fine.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Monday, 22 May 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

Basically, it should say on the CD cover.

A list of CDs would be no good. I've seen cds in europe that were copy protected versions of the exact same thing in England. I've seen Copy and Non-Copy protected cds for sale alongside each other in HMV.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 May 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think telephonething wants to know whether he'll be able to play it in his car before he orders it online and it's not in the shops where he lives, so he can't look at the back cover...

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 22 May 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

The "FBI Protected" thing is just like those FBI warnings at the beginnings of DVDs or old VHS rental videos.. finger wagging and no more.

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Monday, 22 May 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Sessions" isn't copy-protected :)

― Ben (crispyben), Monday, 22 May 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

yeah donut's right, the FBI thing is (for example) on the US editions of DFA stuff, where there's no anti-copy stuff; here in australia we get no such warning, but we do get the 'copy control' logo you find on most EMI releases, and a big spiel about what it is and isn't compatible with.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Monday, 22 May 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

the dread logo:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Copy_control_logo.png

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Monday, 22 May 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Copy-protected DVDs have a threatening pic of MPAA president Jack Valenti's bichon frise, Yappy, printed in ultraviolet ink at the lower left hand corner of the case:

http://static.flickr.com/25/61569383_36376ede9f_m.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 22 May 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

The FBI warning on the back of CDs is nothing more than that: a warning that stealing music is like... illegal and stuff. Scores of un-protected CDs bear such a logo on the package.

― vartman (novaheat), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

Why does that logo look like the kinda logo a Trifoce-obsessed secret society in the Legend of Zelda might have?

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

In Australia it seems to be only EMI titles

― grapple (grapple), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

What's actually supposed to happen with these? I've loaded a copy-protected CD onto Itunes (on a Mac) and burned off a CD from it without any problems.

― eyesteel (eyesteel), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

they infected your computer with chicken pox

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

All EMI related releases are copy-controlled, while these days I think most other labels have stopped including copy-protection. About time EMI cut the crap too.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

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