After all… what happened to that EXTRA TAX that was applied to blank CD-R’s to compensate the “Fat cat” for custom cd’s… now they say we can’t do that… hrmmm…

Guess nobody said that “Fat cat” was a “smart cat” eh?

Love from Canada

Thank you for contacting us Jeff. We appreciate your purchase of thie Dave Matthews Band CD and apologize for any

inconvenience.

The software on this disc is only directly compatible with specific secure formats and portable devices as detailed on the back of the CD packaging as well in the interface on the disc.

That said, there is still a way to get content onto portable devices that are not directly compatible with the disc at this time. Please follow the instructions below in order to do so:

If you have a Mac computer you can copy the songs using your standard media player as you would normally do.

If you have a PC place the CD into your computer and allow the CD to automatically start. If the CD does not automatically start, open your Windows Explorer, locate the drive letter for your CD drive and double-click on the LaunchCD.exe file located on your CD.

Once the application has been launched and the End User License Agreement has been accepted, you click the Copy Songs button /icon.

Follow the instructions to copy the secure Windows Media Files (WMA) to your PC. Make a note of where you are copying the songs to, you will need to get to these secure Windows Media Files in the next steps.

Once the WMA files are on your PC you can open and listen to the songs with Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher or any compatible player that can play secure Windows Media files, such as MusicMatch, RealPlayer, and Winamp.

Using any of the compatible players noted above, you can then burn the songs to a CD. Please note that in order to burn the files, you need to upgrade to or already have Windows Media Player 9, MusicMatch 8, or Media Center 10.

Once the CD has been burned, place the copied CD back into your computer and open the media player you normally use for ripping and transferring files to your portable device. You can now rip the songs as you would a normal CD.

Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from the various digital rights management and portable device companies. SONY BMG has already reached out to many of the companies in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you contact your device manufacturer and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs onto your device rather than having to go through the additional steps above.

Please let us know if we can assist you further.

Thank you,

Michal

SunnComm Tech Support

CLIENT: spikebebop7@yahoo.com
I want to put my music on to my psp. but i think that the psp can only support mp3s instead of wma

IT WORKS!
mp3 baby!

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/09/2211259&tid=93&tid=141&tid=123&tid=17

It is granted in the Trademark and Copyright laws.

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jhalderm/cd3/

You can get around it by holding down the shift-key, etc.

First, when you buy a CD, you don’t buy the music. You only buy the right to listen to the music. The artist, producer, and publisher all retain their rights to that music. They may offer to allow you the ability to enjoy hearing that music in any way they choose. That may be on vinyl, a compact disk, mini CD, or on computer storage, in analogue or digital format. As the owners, they may attach such conditions, as they deem sufficient, within the limits of the law.

If you don’t like the format or conditions attached to the music then you do not have to buy the vehicle that holds it.

Take it or leave it.

Second, if the music industry continues to alienate and frustrate their customers and fans then they will continue to see sales decline. I often listen to CDs as I work at my computer and my computer is not in the same room as the stereo. And NO, I will not install more software that I do not know about to listen to a CD I just bought.

Then there is the price. When they first appeared, it was understood that CDs cost more then vinyl records. As the production process matured though, CD prices do not appear to have come down. And cases of music artists getting rich from music sales are rare.

Sell it or keep it.

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I believe that CD sales have declined over the last few years because there are no real “super stars”. If anything, music sharing has probably helped sales.

Recorded music has been with us for over a century now. It has gone from scratchy wax cylinders to very high fidelity digital storage. It wasn’t until Elvis Presley, in the mid-50s, that the music industry, including both hardware and recordings started booming. In the mid 60s, domestic playback equipment improved as consumers wanted to hear the superstars; the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Judy Collins, and many others, in true splendor. In the 70s there were super bands such as Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, and Pink Floyd driving the listening experience. We used 8-tracks and later cassette players in our cars. Into the 80s we got Madonna, U2, and Michael Jackson. Into the 90s the super stars declined and it was the changeover from vinyl to CDs that continued to fuel the music industry. After everyone’s collections were changed over and no super stars came along, the industry stopped growing at the rates it had become used to.

Personally, my wife and I own over 2,000 CDs, cassette tapes and vinyl albums purchased from the early 80s to the present. Yet, neither of us feels any urge to purchase more then three or four albums a year as there just isn’t much we really care for out there. I don’t want to hear another Rolling Stone or Eagles Greatest Hits collection.

Until we get another group like the Beatles, or Michael Jackson to fuel the music buying public, sales will continue to decline. I doubt that such a super star(s) will appear as the music industry has fragmented into so many different tastes that no one could appeal to most people. There are lots of very good music groups out there already and more trying to make it. But ordinary does not cut it. We need inspiration.

What a bunch of ignorant pigs…

Here’s an article about how Suncomm threatened to sue a Princeton student that published a paper describing the incredibly simple method to defeat their “copy-protection.” Not sure if this method applies to their current technology or not.

http://vigilant.tv/article/3371/suncomm-to-sue-student-over-cd-copying-paper

Now I too am somewhat pissed at DMB.

Now, if they start messing around with the plain audio tracks I’ll be pissed too.

only once did I buy a protected CD (well, it was actually a gift from my mother) and since I do not have a hi-fi and play my CDs from my Linux box I wanted to return that crap immediately.
But since I loved that music a lot I did circumvent the protection and burnt a standard audio CD.
But now the protections are getting more and more intricate and I swear not to buy any protected CD again.
I can almost hear them crying that pirates and P2P networks kill music…

Second, isn’t this the first step towards forward integration into a napster-like subscription model? I think it is crude, but the signs are there. Napster went nuts trying to figure out a way to keep people subscribed. What’s keeping the RIAA, once they get realistic, from just putting their whole catalog out and charging for subscriptions?

Digital Rights Management has always creeped me out.

The moral of the story is that machine is kicking in, starting to learn how to control our behavior on this new front. Ready?