Acording to todays Register, these protection methods are trivially
defeated
with tape or marker pens.
Basically, the last track is corrupt on the CD, so the PC doesn't read it,
but
if you mask off the last track it works ... allegedly.
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 15:03 pm, Kenneth Watt wrote:
> Ian,
>
> Are you trying to wind the small MAC community up? ;-) (not hard
really
>
> :-D)
>
> Actually I had heard that there were playback issues on all
platforms
> with these new CDs and that some drives, including hi-fi units will
not
> even play them so it's not really a shock.
>
> K.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 14 May 2002 14:52
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> > Subject: [ukha_d]
> >
> >
> > hehe..
> >
> > the new batch of Copy protected CD's may not play on PCs.. but
that's
> > nothing compared to what it does to iMacs.. LOL!
> >
> > http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-
> > bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/query?searchMode
> > =Assisted&type=id&val=KC.106882
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> >
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