Record Industry Nazis

by **adidas** on Sat Jul 21, 2001 11:55 pm

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-66 ... ?tag=cd_mh

If I ever find out that a cd I want is copy protected, I WILL NOT BUY IT!

These money-grubbing motherfuckers need to get their heads out of their asses [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]

Ok warez scene, you figured out Dreamcast copying, figure this one out too, please!

by **jurucyber** on Sun Jul 22, 2001 12:37 am

I dont mind the principle,especially if smaller independants use this technology,
but the major labels can fuck themselves
to death as far as i'm concerned.

by **Megaman X** on Sun Jul 22, 2001 1:42 am

Christ, that asshole from EMI pretty much walked all over the copyright attorney in that interview.

I figured this would happen since they've thrown millions at Napster. They've figured out that's not working so now their going to the disk itself.

And for the record, I HATE Macrovision. All their technology does is inconvenience the consumer while doing dick to stop the pirates.

by **were** on Sun Jul 22, 2001 7:04 am

you should call napster indie mp3 fever....

by **Silverhaze** on Sun Jul 22, 2001 8:46 pm

Copy the CD to minidisc and then record it into the pc as an mp3 surely? But that could be a bit long winded.

by **adidas** on Sun Jul 22, 2001 10:16 pm

I have no experience with minidiscs, I'm not sure if that would work or not

by **Megaman X** on Sun Jul 22, 2001 11:50 pm

From what I understand, the copy protection they are using in this article won't allow the music to go anywhere, including a minidisc.

I'm just trying to figure out why the RIAA screamed that they wanted everyone to buy CDs of their music then they pull this shit that guarantees that people will bootleg it.

Guess their business is music, not common sense.

by **adidas** on Mon Jul 23, 2001 12:55 am

I won't give a premature 'fuck you' to Macrovision and the RIAA just yet, but take a look at this method:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php3?ID=2282

I wish I had a copy protected audio cd to try this out on....

by **adidas** on Mon Jul 23, 2001 1:06 am

Well, I'm not sure about the copy protected cd's, but it works on an unprotected cd.

If anyone finds that a certain audio cd has copy protection, let me know. I'm interested in trying to copy them [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

by **ivwshane** on Mon Jul 23, 2001 3:24 am

This site has a program that will crack it and allow you to make copies. http://www.cdrsoft.cc/index2.html

by **adidas** on Mon Jul 23, 2001 3:43 am

Yeah, it's the same vxd file that the site I posted had :P

I want to try it!

by **ivwshane** on Mon Jul 23, 2001 4:08 am

Sorry, I don't click on links that much. I don't have or know of any copy protected cd's so it's not a big deal for me at this point.

by **Pdaimaoh** on Mon Jul 23, 2001 9:48 am

it won't matter
piracy runs far deeper than the consumer level (as seen in the DC scene most obviously...)

besides, they brag that one protected album sold 100,000 copies...oh big hairy deal, that was probably some giveaway album or some boyband newbie junk that no one would WANT to copy

by **jurucyber** on Tue Jul 24, 2001 1:02 am

You want to know one of the causes of
(game) piracy?

Video gaming journolists.
Its a well known industry fact that
they often duplicate betas or "near-as -dammit "gold revew copys to their warez and pirate buddys,or distribute themselves in the underground.

If you knew the sort of anti-copying methods
that the developers put on review copys,
you;d be amazed these game make it onto shop shelves at all!

by **Pdaimaoh** on Tue Jul 24, 2001 1:20 am

like I said, it runs far deeper than consumer level (arrr, prior to my involvement in such things I knew a tester/programmer that would copy games...just for friends...who would then copy games...just for friends...and so on...)

just like those tapes that come in several months in advance to rental stores, so they can preview and see if they want to order real copies...big flashing bar at the beginning, middle, and end that gives some number to call and narc if you are viewing that copy and weren't given express permission blah blah.
that box is so easy to blank out....or write over...

by **adidas** on Tue Jul 24, 2001 2:27 am

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>If you knew the sort of anti-copying methods
that the developers put on review copys,
you;d be amazed these game make it onto shop shelves at all!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Isn't it just the normal SafeDisc protection? You don't even have to crack the game to copy SafeDisc protected games if you have a certain brand of burner and use CloneCD.

As far as cracking the game to distribute it on the net, there is a generic patch you can use.

Often times the executable files that you download to be able to burn a copy protected game (like Unreal Tournament) were originally released in warez releases.

I haven't really encountered too many other types of copy protection for games, most of the games I have burned use SafeDisc. I don't know if the game industry has some sort of delusion about the effectiveness of SafeDisc, or companies just signed contracts early on so now they have to use it, but it isn't a big deal to copy SafeDisc protected games.

It inconvenienced me a little when I didn't know how to copy them, since I wasted about 10 cds before I found out how to do it.

What I think is really funny is that I have a legit store-bought version of Unreal Tournament, and I used to have to crack it to update it!

Before Epic started releasing patches that let you play without the cd, I would update UT and it would try to start two copies of the program. I found that the solution was to update game and then crack it. As Homer J. said: "I HATE Macrovision. All their technology does is inconvenience the consumer while doing dick to stop the pirates."

[ 23 July 2001: Message edited by: adidas ]

by **Silverhaze** on Tue Jul 24, 2001 1:33 pm

I get that with a few of my games. Every time I try to load em the damn thing tries to load the game twice bringing up all kinds of errors.

by **adidas** on Tue Jul 24, 2001 4:08 pm

Crack 'em.
http://www.gamecopyworld.com

by **were** on Wed Jul 25, 2001 7:38 am

except diablo2...i mean...its inpossible to copy a patched cd game..

by **adidas** on Wed Jul 25, 2001 4:07 pm

LOL, yeah right!