CDs that aren't

**English assassin** · 12-31-2004, 17:33

I HATE digital rights protection.

Having just got used to the idea that I can use my CD drive as a CD player, which is handy when I am working, it now seems the music industry is releasing discs that are not to the internationally agreed CD standard, to make sure they won't play in CD drives.

Now, I don't want to rip off the tracks. I don't know how, for a start, never downloaded a track in my life, don't have an iPod etc. What I want is to listen to the music I HAVE PAID FOR on the device of my choice. Which means, in my office, a CD drive.

Apparently some of them don't work in car stereos either.

Please please, lets boycott this. If its not a real CD I don't buy it, I have decided. Its our only chance to get the moneygrubbing record companies hands off our nuts before they really put the squeeze on.

(Oh, and don't bootleg tracks either.)

**Kaiser of Arabia** · 12-31-2004, 19:27

all my skynyrd cds work fine, so do my AC/DC and Queen and Eagles and America and Dean Martin and Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin cds work too.

**NagatsukaShumi** · 12-31-2004, 21:52

It is stupid I must say.

Got to admit, I do rip the tracks off my CD's. What do I do with them? I have them in a music folder on my computer so that I can listen to my CD's without having to bring down my CD player or constantly inserting a new CD. I also put them on my mp3 player. Personally, I paid my 15 pounds for my CD and I think I should be allowed to rip the songs onto my computer for my PERSONAL use, be it for me to listen to on my PC or on my mp3 Player, I am not distributing these tracks to anyone else.

When I also find that I can't even listen to my albums on my PC I become even more agitated. The music business is killing itself off by caring so much about its money, the more they look like they only care bout our wallets the more we take the "illegal" routes.