Good news for Mac-owning, Celine Dione fans
May 14, 2002 11:53 AM Subscribe
Good news for Mac-owning, Celine Dione fans
"The process is pretty easy: I took a bit of electrical tape and applied it to the edge of the CD, the 'shiny side', - just a half inch of the stuff - and aligned it with the very edge 'data track session ring' visible on these copy protected CDs. Took the tape out to the outside of the CD and put it in my CD Rom."
"The process is pretty easy: I took a bit of electrical tape and applied it to the edge of the CD, the 'shiny side', - just a half inch of the stuff - and aligned it with the very edge 'data track session ring' visible on these copy protected CDs. Took the tape out to the outside of the CD and put it in my CD Rom."
Ha! I laugh. I wonder how time, energy, and money was spent to put these copyright solutions on these cd's versus to circumvent them. At least it probably kept some people employed for a while.
posted by Hackworth at 12:11 PM on May 14, 2002
posted by Hackworth at 12:11 PM on May 14, 2002
Somebody contact Sen. Hollings! We need to outlaw electrical tape as an anti-DMCA device!!!1!
posted by chipr at 12:15 PM on May 14, 2002
posted by chipr at 12:15 PM on May 14, 2002
That's a lot of trouble to go through just to hear Celine Dion.
This sounds like the stuff people used to try back in the 80's to make CDs "sound better".The green marker thing, stuff like that.
posted by BarneyFifesBullet at 12:15 PM on May 14, 2002
This sounds like the stuff people used to try back in the 80's to make CDs "sound better".The green marker thing, stuff like that.
posted by BarneyFifesBullet at 12:15 PM on May 14, 2002
That's pretty much exactly what I thought of, Barney. I wonder if anyone's combined the two techniques.
posted by me3dia at 12:34 PM on May 14, 2002
posted by me3dia at 12:34 PM on May 14, 2002
Actually, it reminds me more of the "hole-punch" method of "double-siding" the 5 1/4" floppy disks of the C64/AppleII days.
Low-tech beats hi-tech almost every time.
posted by grum@work at 12:56 PM on May 14, 2002
Low-tech beats hi-tech almost every time.
posted by grum@work at 12:56 PM on May 14, 2002
The process is pretty easy: I took a bit of electrical tape and applied it to her mouth, and aligned it with her ears.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 1:39 PM on May 14, 2002
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 1:39 PM on May 14, 2002
The subset of the population that owns Macs *and* are Celine Dion fans must be quite small, indeed.
posted by laz-e-boy at 2:10 PM on May 14, 2002
posted by laz-e-boy at 2:10 PM on May 14, 2002
one layer being MP3s that cannot be copied off the CD but can be played on the CD
Why the hell would they bother? Is there any computer with a CD drive that *can't* play a normal CD? If the MP3s aren't downloadable, what's the point of all that effort?
posted by me3dia at 2:35 PM on May 14, 2002
Why the hell would they bother? Is there any computer with a CD drive that *can't* play a normal CD? If the MP3s aren't downloadable, what's the point of all that effort?
posted by me3dia at 2:35 PM on May 14, 2002
I don't think they understand that if you can play a given sample of digital audio, then you can copy it.
posted by oaf at 2:44 PM on May 14, 2002
posted by oaf at 2:44 PM on May 14, 2002
This is just further proof that electrical tape and super glue hold the universe together.
posted by DragonBoy at 2:59 PM on May 14, 2002
posted by DragonBoy at 2:59 PM on May 14, 2002
I'm still waiting for someone (else) to come clean and make an admission. "Hi, my name is ________ and I'm a Mac user and Celine Dion fan."
But it won't be me! ::whistling innocently::
posted by Dreama at 3:48 PM on May 14, 2002
But it won't be me! ::whistling innocently::
posted by Dreama at 3:48 PM on May 14, 2002
Hi, my name is Fofer and I'm a Mac user and Celine Dion fan.
By the way, my CD drive is now busted.
posted by Fofer at 4:33 PM on May 14, 2002
By the way, my CD drive is now busted.
posted by Fofer at 4:33 PM on May 14, 2002
I took a bit of electrical tape and applied it to her mouth,
That mouth would require more than 'a bit'!
posted by HTuttle at 4:38 PM on May 14, 2002
That mouth would require more than 'a bit'!
posted by HTuttle at 4:38 PM on May 14, 2002
You bastard!
Yeah? You MAC-OWNING CELINE DION FAN!!!
*Gasp!*
posted by signal at 4:51 PM on May 14, 2002
Yeah? You MAC-OWNING CELINE DION FAN!!!
*Gasp!*
posted by signal at 4:51 PM on May 14, 2002
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