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[miguel]

I have bought a cd from Lauryn hill and i didn't notice (i know i have to do it from now onwards, i hate this kind of things) that it has a warning saying that's not to be played on pc/mac. Well, i have bought it, so i have a problem, i want to listen it, and the only place i have to listen it is through my pc, but it doesn't work.

i heard there was a way to avoid this protection, can you shed some light?

thanks a lot,
Miguel.

[ChicoSelfs]

i hear that are some people with a filter pen can hide the protected engine but...

[Mirko]

I have tried that with the filter pen. No way.
I had to copy the CD with my HiFi track-by-track :-/

I will never buy any CD from Shakira again. Sorry sweetie.

[miguel]

well, i can say the same about Lauryn Hill (not again, lady)... it's a pity, i also heard about the pen solution, ...

thank you both

[Fastyves]

Hi Folks,

Depends on what protection it is (Macrovision SafeAudio or sony K2Audio) but certain devices are able to read those @$#@%# CD's.
I got the same problem with the 'A New Day Has Come' by Céline Dion - didn't play on my NEC DV5800A DVD player, nor on my PX-40TS SCSI CR-r drive, but played on my PX-W2410A burner.

So you can have a look among your friends, maybe one of them belongs a "good" device.

(Other option here, but a little tricky !)

Anyway, Bonne Chance !

Yves.

[zevele]

The pen is good for only one kind of protecred cd

If you have a look at it it is what you see ,from center to end

A large part who looks like regular cd encoded.A small part who looks lilke a blank cd and again a small part who looks like an encoded part .You have to put the pen on this part.All this part .If you miss a millimeter it will not work.You need good eyes and not using full strong light

[ChicoSelfs]

Here is a article because of this subject

[Mirko]

I do have a very simple and straight forward viewpoint: I already _pay_ (germany: GEMA. I'm sure there a similar systems in other countries) for copying my CDs to other medias (tapes, CDRs). So I don't see any need for copy protecting the CDs. If they do, they loose one customer.
If they go on this way, I guess they will loose even more customers to "free audio" communities.

Listening to: 'Saxy Jam' from 'House Rotation' by 'Internet' on Media Jukebox

[ChicoSelfs]

that's the truth, they lose me, international groups no more only national and free of CD protection fulish. I like to preserve my records.