haha
I give it a week before it gets cracked.

Hahaha all country music is copy protected by the fact no one wants to copy it muahahahah

Reading through it, it sounds like it's going to make it easier to copy stuff - now you don't even need to rip the songs off the CD, since apparently it'll automatically download "Windows media versions of the content that can be loaded onto portable players such as MP3s".

Ignoring that, they aren't going to be able to stop analog rips, or at the worst case rips done via a normal CD player through a line in port.

How are they going to stop me ripping it using the digital out on my CD-ROM? I just stick in the CD, press play, and record.

pity that some cd-roms use digital plaback instead of analog anyway, so does that mean that they cant play these cd's at all?? or that they can ripthem without trouble :)

interesting thing is that DVDs were unhackable, you couldnt copy them, rip them etc.

then linux came out and they ended up releaseing the codong for DVDs and someone implemented that to a windiows program

see what linux does for the world?

You could always get a DVD player with an optical out and hook it up to a sound card with an optical in. See, I've already messed up their plan.

Linux had nothing to do with DVD's being hacked, sorry. Basically each DVD producer has a security key, which is used when they burn their DVDs, and this tells DVD players they are authentic DVDs, plus does all the security checking, etc, etc. (thats how I understand it in a basic way anyway).

Anyway, these keys are meant to be encoded so they cannot be hacked. Someone though (I think it was RealMedia from memory) farked up and didn't encode theirs. Of course, the hackers were onto this as quick as can be, and once they had one of the keys, they used that as a stepping stone to decode the rest of the keys, and before you know it, presto. The unhackable security on DVDs was hacked.

i think it will be done with in a week of public release

Yeah, but I've already got a means of circumventing it. Does this make DVD players illegal, as they are now circumvention devices?

legislators and copy protection people are soooo clueless....! it makes me laugh!!!

lol "at least we're advancing technology a bit".
more like wasting money at protecting something that is so easily duplicated as sound.

Heh, analogue rips might not be as fast and flawless as a digital cdrom rip, but with good quality sound equipment and jacks you're not going to be able to tell the difference.

Sif that's "New" technology anyway.
Some PSX game developers been using that same technique for ages - it got cracked instantly and thats that. Why they are even bothering to waste money on it when they KNOW its gonna be cracked straight away, escapes me.

My query - What is you dont have a net connection but wanna burn tracks? You're f***ed. And where will this magical storehouse of WMP files be?

- sR

Where would the WMP files be? Why, maybe they'll be at 127.0.0.1 if the routing tables get changed.

I'm in agreement. This is another pointless attempt to add copy protection to something that can't be copy protected and still retain its usability.
But then, the creators of this wondrous invention already know that.