| Directory > Society > Issues > Intellectual Property > Music Freedom > Corrupted Audio CDs NewOlde.com - How to Detect and Avoid Copy-Controlled CDs
Information for classical music listeners to help them identify Copy-Controlled CDs, including the
graphics that appear on the packaging.
http://www.newolde.com/copy_controlled_cd.htm
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Music For The Masses
Lists copy-protected CDs that have been released in the New Zealand market.
http://music.forthemasses.net
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Big Five Labels Sued Over Copy-Protected CDs
"Heightening the tension surrounding the music industry's efforts to guard its content in the
digital realm, the five major record labels were hit with a class action lawsuit last week for
producing and distributing CDs with copyright protection controls." By Scarlet Pruitt. [IDG]
http://www.itworld.com/Man/2683/020619cdcopy/
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The Age - Copy Protected CDs: Artists Can Be the Losers
Article pointing out that music companies which use copy protection may be denying the artists
under contract to them legitimate play time on radio stations.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/03/1048962867084.html
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Slashdot -Stations Can't Play Crippled Music Disks
Reader comments on The Age article reporting that some radio stations are unable to play
copy-protected CDs.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/0031209
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Metafilter
Community weblog discussing protected and corrupted audio cd's.
http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/9152
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Fat Chuck's: Corrupt CDs
List of known corrupt CDs, suggestions about what to do about them, and posters about the issue.
http://www.fatchucks.com/z3.cd.html
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Copy Protection On CDs Is 'Worthless'
Reader comments on New Scientist article. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/2144242
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Copy Protection on CDs is 'Worthless'
"The technology built into some CDs to stop people copying them is futile, according to a
computer scientist who has put today's antipiracy systems under the microscope." By Barry Fox.
[New Scientist]
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993020
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Philips Burning on Protection
"Officials for Netherlands-based Philips, which licenses the compact disc logo for both discs
and players, went on a tirade against the recording industry for shipping discs with deliberate
errors burned into them." By Paul Boutin. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50101,00.html
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Special Report: Copy-Protected CDs
"How the labels are trying to stop you." [Rolling Stone]
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=15990
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Selling the Benefits
"If DVD-A and/or SACD are to supplant CD, not only do their features have to be transformed
into benefits, but the benefits consumers currently enjoy with CD need to be preserved." By
John Atkinson. [Stereophile]
http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?681
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Copy-Protected CDs a Nightmare for BMG Germany
"Blaming a falloff in CD sales on the popularity of CD burners, BMG Germany recently issued
approximately 100,000 copy-protected discs in an attempt to thwart the problem--and had to take a
substantial portion of them back because consumers said the discs wouldn't perform in car players
and in some home audio systems." By Barry Willis. [Stereophile]
http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?671
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Philips: Don't Mess with the CD!
"According to Philips, recent attempts to add playback restriction technology to new releases
is not just a bad idea: Because the Red Book recipe has been altered, the discs no longer qualify
as CDs and should be labeled clearly." By Jon Iverson. [Stereophile]
http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1247
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Record Labels Beware
Study suggests that, if the music industry wants to experiment with selling copy-protected CDs,
"there [must] be mandatory warning labels on the CDs or the industry risks seriously
alienating consumers." By Jon Iverson. [Stereophile]
http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1482
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Consumer Claims Victory in CD Lawsuit
"Makers of a recording by country-pop singer Charley Pride have agreed to stop tracking most
listener habits and to warn consumers that the CD is not compatible with MP3 and other players,
according to attorneys for a woman who sued the companies." By Lisa Bowman. [CNet]
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-843114.html
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Consumers in Crossfire of Labels' War on Piracy
"The downside of copy-protected music CDs? Some won't play when consumers get them home."
By Aaron Pressman. [Christian Science Monitor]
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0304/p18s01-wmcn.html
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CD Technology Stops Copies, But It Starts a Controversy
"The recording industry has begun selling music CD's designed to make it impossible for people
to copy music to their computers, trade songs over the Internet or transfer them to portable MP3
players." By Amy Harmon. [New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/technology/01PROT.html
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BMG to Replace Anti-rip Natalie Imbruglia CDs
"Bertelsmann Music Group has had to back down on plans to force anti-rip technologies on
British CD buyers." By Tony Smith. [Register]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/22917.html
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BMG Stops Producing CDs
"The Register has a new story about claims by Bertelsmann that they'll stop manufacturing
uncrippled audio CDs." News and reader comments. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/1312259
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'No More Music CDs Without Copy Protection,' Claims BMG Unit
"BMG is at it again, this time apparently set on applying copy protection to all its music
products." By John Lettice. [Register]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27960.html
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AOL Seeks Manager for Anti-Copying Push
"AOL Time Warner is beginning efforts to add copy protection to CDs, underscoring the
company's desire to limit unsanctioned digital distribution of its musical works." By Jim Hu.
[CNet]
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-858181.html
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Customers Put Kibosh on Anti-Copy CD
"Complaints about anti-copying technology on Natalie Imbruglia's latest CD force her record
label to issue replacements for angry consumers." By John Borland. [CNet]
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7922576.html
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Hey, Big Five - Copyright This!
"A class action lawsuit has been filed against the five major record labels for manufacturing
and distributing defective or dysfunctional compact discs." News and reader discussion.
[Plastic]
http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/06/19/19130151
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Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs
News about Celine Dion CDs killing iMacs and black markers or sticky notes defeating some
"copy-protection" schemes. Reader discussion. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/14/0040215
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Felt Tip Marker Defeats Copy-Protected CDs
News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/22/1439253
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Another Class Action Over Crippled Music Disks
News brief and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/0250258
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Lawsuit Challenges Copy-Protected CDs
"The five major record companies have been hit with a class-action lawsuit charging that new
CDs designed to thwart Napster-style piracy are defective and should either be barred from sale or
carry warning labels." [Reuters]
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-936527.html
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Lawsuit Challenges Copy-protected CDs
Reader discussion of Reuters article. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/17/1435211
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Blue Celine of Death - Sony Wants to Crash Your Computer
"Sony has released Celine Dion's latest album with some software that will crash your computer
if you place it in your drive." News and reader discussion. [Plastic]
http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=02/04/04/2221237
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Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers
"Celine Dion's latest CD will not play in computer drives. In fact: 'Should the consumer try
to play Dion's CD on a PC or Macintosh, the computer likely will crash.'" News and reader
discussion. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/03/226233
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New CD Protection Won't Play on PCs
"Israeli security company Midbar Tech is releasing 1 million copy-protected CDs in Japan as
part of an aggressive push by record labels to curtail digital piracy." By Gwendolyn Mariano.
[ZDNet]
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-852952.html
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Cactus CD Copy Protection is Launched This Month
"To thwart file swappers, Universal Music Group executives have said they want to protect a
large proportion of their new releases as early as midyear." News and reader discussion.
[kuro5hin]
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/8/72812/62445
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Campaign for Digital Rights: Corrupt Audio Discs
Articles, documents, research, leaflets, and list of "known bad" CDs in Europe.
http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/cd/bad/
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kuro5hin: New Scientist: SafeDisc Can Cause Damage to Speakers
"New Scientist reports that the new anti-piracy feature on audio CDs, has the potential to
damage loudspeakers by introducing square waves into the amplified signal." News and reader
comments.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/1/17156/40276
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Register: 'Hi-fi Nuking' CD Technology Safe Claims Developer
Skeptical report on New Scientist's retraction of its warning that Cactus could damage speakers
playing copied CDs. By Tony Smith.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/20945.html
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New Scientist Correction
Retraction of article saying Cactus DataShield could damage speakers. "Midbar... has asked us
to make clear that there is nothing in its technology on the market, past, current or future, that
could, or would, be potentially damaging to equipment."
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991105
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New Scientist: New CD Anti-Piracy System Could Damage Loudspeakers
"It is called the Cactus Data Shield, and it is designed to add noisy garbage to all copied
CDs. The trouble is, it could also damage the hi-fi and loudspeakers of people who play pirated
CDs."
http://www.rense.com/general12/news.htm
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New Scientist: Anti-piracy CD System Raises Distortion Fear
"The first CD title has already sold 100,000 copies, but it is causing concern among audio
experts because they fear that the music may be audibly distorted."
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999998
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Register: CD Anti-piracy System Can Nuke Hi-fi Kit
"Sony's Music Entertainment division has been testing an anti-piracy technology that at best
renders illegally copied CDs unlistenable and at worse blows listeners' speakers." By Tony
Smith.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/20809.html
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BMG Backs Down Over Copy-Protected CD
Virgin Megastores has responded to a complaint from one of their customers and said that BMG has
set up a helpline to allow people who bought the corrupt version, to exchange it for a real one.
Virgin and HMV will also be bringing in new stock of uncorrupted CDs. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/yro/01/11/18/0457230.shtml
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Register: 1M Anti-piracy Hi-fi Nuking CDs Hit Europe
"One million CDs have been released in Europe which are protected by the controversial
anti-piracy system Cactus Data Shield... The Cactus Data Shield system is controversial because the
technology could blow your hi-fi speakers." By Robert Blincoe.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/20919.html
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Register: Old Code Defeats New CD Anti-ripping Technologies
"Macrovision's SafeAudio and Midbar's Cactus - both new technologies designed to prevent CDs
from being copied successfully - may have been defeated by software released over two years
ago." By Tony Smith.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/20947.html
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Register: Music Biz Patents Anti-rip Encryption Technology
"Details of the method appear in a patent filed by IFPI. The patent, GB2357165, centres on
encrypting the track time codes stamped onto every music disc." By Tony Smith.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/21092.html
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SoundHub: Universal Rolls Out CD Copy Protection
"Universal Music Group has recently announced it's October plans for issuing CDs which will
include software that prevents them from being ripped and encoded to a user's PC."
http://soundhub.com/?a=gkml1r
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More Copy Protected CDs?
Fat Chuck's maintains a list of corrupt CDs. Reader comments and discussion. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/11/1436210
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Slashdot: BMG's New Copy-Protected Audio CDs
"BMG-Entertainment started selling audio-CDs using the Cactus Data Shield, a copy-protection
system developed by Midbar and Sonopress which makes it impossible to grab the music from the CD
and to listen to it using 'an old CD-Player' or a CD-ROM-drive." News and reader comments.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/25/116237.shtml
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Geek.com: Audio CD Copy Protection
"The first copy-protected audio CD in the US will be released in April. The CD is a tribute to
country singer Jim Reeves performed by Charley Pride."
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001mar/gee20010329005088.htm
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Register: Anti-rip CD System Bypassed
"Macrovision's SafeAudio technology, designed to prevent PC-owning music fans from ripping CD
tracks onto their hard drives, has been bypassed." By Tony Smith.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/20766.html
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CNet: Protected CDs Quietly Slip into Stores
"Consumers in ordinary record stores are unwittingly buying CDs that include technology
designed to discourage the making of digital copies."
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6604222.html
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CD Freaks: SafeAudio Explained and Should We Fear It?
How Macrovision's SafeAudio works and how to bypass it.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/document.php3?Doc=48
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Register: US Record Label Sued over Anti-rip CD Technology
"An unnamed Californian woman has sued US country music record label Fahrenheit Entertainment
for allegedly misleading its customers by shipping CDs protected with an anti-rip mechanism."
By Tony Smith.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/21610.html
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Slashdot: NSync Copy Protected CD
"NSync's new CD will be released in a least 3 different versions (with different copy
protection techniques)." News and reader comments.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/10/02/163256.shtml
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Register: UK Campaigners Call for Anti 'Anti-rip' CD Day of Action
"Campaigners will take to the streets of Britain this Saturday (6 October) in a bid to raise
public awareness of the music industry's attempts to prevent listeners from copying CDs or playing
discs on PCs." By Tony Smith.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/22041.html
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New Scientist: NSync CD is Copy Protection "Experiment"
"The music industry is now testing different copy protection systems on mass market chart CDs,
with copies of NSync's Celebrity on the Zomba label being sold in at least three different
versions."
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991367
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Wired: Copy-Protected CDs Taken Back
"[BMG Germany] was faced with a backlash from consumers complaining that some of the
copy-protected CDs were unplayable."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33921,00.html
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