<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 2/14/02 8:08:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, chromatest.pantsmaker@verizon.net writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">A friend just bought a "neubauten" cd import that has the protection.
<BR>It specifies on the packaging that it will not play in many CD ROMs.
<BR>I think Macs are very succeptible to this as well.
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<BR>Einsturzende Neubauten imports isn't exactly the place I'd expect this stuff to have shown up at first, since there can't be all that large a group of people who'd want to burn a copy of Blixta & friends banging on bits of metal and running jackhammers, compared to say, somebody like britney spears with a much greater listening audience
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<BR>The nasty bit is that these copy protection methods do stuff like introducing errors into the bit stream, so that even a standard CD player is trying to interpolate data while playing it so you won't notice as much. Apparently a CD-ROM drive can't do this sort of interpolation, though it ought to be possible in software.
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<BR>It may be that all the discs coming out of a particular mastering plant are being done with this scheme. If it's SunComm MediaCloq being used, it's already been cracked, at least for those of us with access to a linux machine. I've got the article on how with source sitting in front of me in this past fall's edition of 2600 magazine. It can be ordered here for 5 bucks:
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<BR>http://shop.store.yahoo.com/2600hacker/fall2001.html
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<BR>-Chris</FONT></HTML>