This could put MP3 Player companies out of business-Copy Protedted C

<SPAN>I have run into a batch of new CD's that are copy protected from Sony in this case.<SPAN>
<SPAN>The example I will Use is Patty Loveless's New Cd Dreamin' My Dreams. First the ripper in my Zen software kept ejecting the CD and asking me to put a CD in the tray. Musicmatch didn?t recognize the Disk and I had to give it a phony name before it would load. When I did rip it track 2 contains the proper song but with over 3 mins. of dead time after the song finished and listed the track length at over 7 min for a 3 min song. Track 3 the Bonus track was 2 sec.'s long and was blank. If this continues's with new releases we will no longer be able to rip our bought and paid for CD's to MP3's to transfer to our players
<SPAN>So who will need a player? The download services sometimes don't have all complete albums available and many of can only be copied under certain restrictions and some not at all.
<SPAN>So where does this leave all of us lovers of digital music. I wonder if we can return the opened CD's to the store. Some of these CD's aren't even guaranteed to work in car stereos, DVD players, computers or even alarm clocks. I just used the above example as CD but I understand this is getting commonplace and only to get worse in the future.
<SPAN>I am very concerned about our rights as honest paying customers being taken away by corporate greed.
<SPAN>
<SPAN>Bob
<SPAN>Owner of a new ZEN SLEEK

JK23 wrote:
This looks like an attack on music stores. I guess large companies like Sony want to sell more of their music directly through the net or else indirectly through Apple and other online vendors. I wonder how long it will take for all music stores to disappear?
I don't think so. This is simply the age old trying to stop people from ripping CDs.
It amazes me that newspapers are still being printed in large numbers and that newspapers haven't abandoned their printed editions and switched to an internet only format.
It's that cultural and ease thing of being able to sit down in a comfy chair or on the bus/train and read the newspaper. Often people don't realise there's more to it than just the dissemination of information.

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