Emi Copy Control

[Prinzy2]

I have a couple of CDs with EMI copy control, which means that I can't get the rip the music onto my computer. The two CDs I'm trying to get on so far are Stabilo and Korn. Every time I try and save the album from their little window player, it craps out and says there's been an error.
Does anyone know how to get these songs onto a computer from the disc?

[Kingbastard]

At 9/30/07 11:52 AM, Prinzy2 wrote: I have a couple of CDs with EMI copy control, which means that I can't get the rip the music onto my computer. The two CDs I'm trying to get on so far are Stabilo and Korn. Every time I try and save the album from their little window player, it craps out and says there's been an error.
Does anyone know how to get these songs onto a computer from the disc?

first of all, wrong forum/site, secondly if you want the music soooo bad, then fecking buy it.

[Kingbastard]

sry , read your post wrong, you're still an eejit, but this osrt of thing is better sorted by reading a manual, or just having a brain with which to solve these minor issues.

[Phoog]

At 9/30/07 12:17 PM, Kingbastard wrote: sry , read your post wrong, you're still an eejit, but this osrt of thing is better sorted by reading a manual, or just having a brain with which to solve these minor issues.

Very nice.

[DJ-Ravecore]

Haha, I know, not jst EMI is doing that. Universal even writes viruses on the CD's to beat the shit outta your encoding program or else, a computer scientist told me.

MyMP3Pro (Steinberg & Pinnacle) can trick them out.

[Greeksta-69]

At 9/30/07 12:55 PM, DJ-Ravecore wrote: Haha, I know, not jst EMI is doing that. Universal even writes viruses on the CD's to beat the shit outta your encoding program or else, a computer scientist told me.

MyMP3Pro (Steinberg & Pinnacle) can trick them out.

Yeah ive heard of this before

[Prinzy2]

At 9/30/07 12:17 PM, Kingbastard wrote: sry , read your post wrong, you're still an eejit, but this osrt of thing is better sorted by reading a manual, or just having a brain with which to solve these minor issues.

Yes, because recording companies sent out manuals and pamphlets on how to get rid of their copy control programs, and they just spend hundreds of thousands of dollars so some kid can open a folder and delete this virus or whatever because they didn't think anyone would try that.

[Prinzy2]

At 9/30/07 12:55 PM, DJ-Ravecore wrote: MyMP3Pro (Steinberg & Pinnacle) can trick them out.

Is there a site I can use to download it free from? Or did you go out and buy it?

[LJCoffee]

At 9/30/07 12:55 PM, DJ-Ravecore wrote: Universal even writes viruses on the CD's to beat the shit outta your encoding program or else, a computer scientist told me.

A computer scientist?

Sorry, but I highly doubt that a major company is putting an actual virus on the cd's to deter piracy. I know about the root-kits but that's something completely different - a root-kit is NOT a virus.

Perhaps the terminology is wrong.

[Greeksta-69]

At 9/30/07 02:41 PM, LJCoffee wrote:
A computer scientist?

Sorry, but I highly doubt that a major company is putting an actual virus on the cd's to deter piracy. I know about the root-kits but that's something completely different - a root-kit is NOT a virus.

Perhaps the terminology is wrong.

I remember one time sony fucked up because they put a virus on some cd and it fucked everyone computer up.

[Prinzy2]

At 9/30/07 02:54 PM, Greeksta-69 wrote:

At 9/30/07 02:41 PM, LJCoffee wrote:
A computer scientist?

Sorry, but I highly doubt that a major company is putting an actual virus on the cd's to deter piracy. I know about the root-kits but that's something completely different - a root-kit is NOT a virus.

Perhaps the terminology is wrong.

I remember one time sony fucked up because they put a virus on some cd and it fucked everyone computer up.

Ya, it was all over the news, it was absolute hell to get rid I heard.
Anyways, I tried that F-Secure Blacklight and it didn't show any hidden files, so I don't think it's a rootkit. It has a save album button but it always says there is an album error (0xc00d271d).

[LJCoffee]

At 9/30/07 02:54 PM, Greeksta-69 wrote: I remember one time sony fucked up because they put a virus on some cd and it fucked everyone computer up.

At 9/30/07 03:32 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: Ya, it was all over the news, it was absolute hell to get rid I heard.

Yeah - it was a rootkit - not a virus.

A virus infects executables and spreads to others - It's a self replicating chunk of code whereas a rootkit modifies the way that an OS works. Both cause problems but Sony's mistake was not a virus.

[InsaneSmilie]

At 9/30/07 11:52 AM, Prinzy2 wrote: I have a couple of CDs with EMI copy control, which means that I can't get the rip the music onto my computer. The two CDs I'm trying to get on so far are Stabilo and Korn. Every time I try and save the album from their little window player, it craps out and says there's been an error.
Does anyone know how to get these songs onto a computer from the disc?

This type of write protection is generaly quiet easy to get around. The write pretection only encodes the tags (if it encoded the audio you whould be able to play it at all). So all you need to do is import with a program like iTunes (Windows media player might work to), which uses it's own library to tag files and completely ignors the encoding that fucked up windows explorer. And if you bought the CD there is nothing illegal about this. In fact I don't think most labels even bother with encoding software anymore for this exact reason.

[Syntrus]

I concure with the above post.

[DJ-Ravecore]

I remember now, they are rootkits. lol sorry! :3

[Codename46]

I'm not an open supporter of piracy but since you legally purchased those CDs can't you legally torrent the albums and they will already be in digital format?