> I recently bought the Live NIN CD and was disappointed to find that > it might be copy protected as well. We bought Think Tank by Blur, which claims inside the inlay booklet to be copy protected (you can't read this until you buy it...) We don't normally rip CDs to lossy formats for playing at home, but I was so annoyed by the fact that the warning was on the inside rather than the outside that I decided to give it a go in Grip and make some copies with XCDRoast and K3b. In particular I'm annoyed that they're departing from the CD standard and messing around with error correction. It ripped and duplicated with no problems whatsoever, which leaves me with three theories: 1. The warning is a bluff or 2. Some CDs were pressed with the anti-copy technology, others weren't or 3. They were going to press the CD with Cactus or whatever (when the booklet copy was written) but changed their minds for some reason. I hope it's 3. I've written an article on DRM for Sound on Sound, including some stuff on Cactus Data Shield, which should hopefully be in the August issue. Since I wrote that article, an interesting example came my way - apparently, radio stations that use PC based playlist systems just throw Cactus discs in the bin. If it won't rip at full quality - it can't get played on air. Cheers Daniel
