anyone familiar with "cd protection" software? anti-copy stuff

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earworm

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just wondering,

i'm doing a little job for a band and they wonder if i can PROTECT their cd against pirates,,,

i know some audio cds are equipped with some sort of software thing so that you can't play back the cd with a PC

but i never used such applications, for me its worthless, i just connect a cd player to my soundcard and hopla, i got the entire cd, know what i'm saying,
but yeah, there's lots of people out there that even don't know how to do that....

so is it even worth spending time and money on such applications?
to protect against illegal copies? oh yeah, its all about SELF BURNED CDS

thanx,
earworm
 
As an independent artist, your biggest worry is that nobody will want to copy your music...or nobody will hear/purchase your music to copy it.

I wouldn't worry about it. Make it easy for your customers to consume your music.
 
Yeah seriously; copy protection has a tendency to tick people off, that's the last thing you want to do as an indy.
 
Truth is, there's no way to 100% protect a CD. Anything that can be put ON a CD to stop it from being copied, can just as easily be taken OFF the CD, if the person trying to take it off there knows what they're doing.
 
If you can play it, you can re-record it.

Protection is just ego talking. Tell 'em to get over themselves...
 
I played with two copy protection things, but that was about 3 or 4 years ago. There were two free programs you could get to stop cd copying. One took a floppy disk and messed up the sectors. It then burned one of the messed up sectors onto the CD, so when the CD was copied, it would get that error and then stop. That doesn't work too well (I don't even know if you can still get that program). There are ways to (it might even be the standard now) to make the burner keep going when it gets those errors. If that's the case, your protection didn't do crap.

The second way stopped the CD from being played in a computer. That's just irratating. Some people (it's hard to believe) only have a CD player in their computer. Without it, they don't want your crap. Again, this was few years old, so it might not even work with the newer CD ROMs/burners. I agree with everyone else, screw the protection and let people listen to the music if they want to.
 
What some of the big music companies do is put a barrier on the CD so you cannot DIGITALLY copy it. ie rip it to CD on a PC. It can still be copied analogue via audio cables. ie hi-fi headphone out to input on recording hardware. Might loose a wee bit of quality, but probably not much atall.
Not that i am promoting pirating!
 
You can do what ecktronic said in Nero, just check 'copy protect' before you go. But yeah, what good would that do?
 
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