Most of us know that Universal Music is planning to come out with a full line of copy protected cd's by spring of next year and the music from the fast and furious was just the beginning.
So here's some excerpts from Patrick Norton
Universal's first copy-protected CD, "Fast & Furious -- More Music," debuted yesterday. The music isn't much to listen to, but I had to see what the disc would look like. |
A PA managed to track down a copy from a local CD shop. (Nice note to Universal Music here: It's good of you to put the warning sticker on the case... your return policy is a great idea. I sense a serious future for it.)
But a few short hours experimenting with some freely downloadable software off the Web (hypothetically, CloneCD and CDex, though others work as well), yielded bit-for-bit copies of the CD.
In fact, I was able to create MP3 files from the disc with relative ease after figuring out the "formula" to see the CDA files on the disc.
This, as it turns out, may well be for naught. A number of the systems we've found in-house don't see the disc as copy protected. They simply see a normal audio CD.
Is this the future of music cd's and will companie(s) like Universal ever learn?
Source: TechTV
