Comments on: MediaMax protected CD online

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:07:43 +0000

Iain Elder is right. As long as are ears are analog DRM is pointless.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:42:20 +0000

Everyone can beat DRM, and you don’t even need to be a hacker.

If you have a personal CD player, and a line-feed cable (with the small jack plugs), then you can rip the CD analogally.

Just connect one end of the line-feed to the headphone-out socket on your CD player and connect the other end to the line-in socket on your sound card.

Play the CD, while recording using sound editing program. After each track is recorded, normalise the track volume, and then that’s basically it!

Granted, the pain-in-the-ass factor is much higher, and can be prone to error (CD skipping etc), but mostly it works just fine.

Nuts to DRM, Analog ownz! :p

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:27:46 +0000

WC Fields said “Never give a sucker an even break”.

but PT Barnum did not say “There’s a sucker born every minute”, it was David Hannum. Don’t belive it? Read here:

http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html
http://greatcontroversy.org/documents/sermons/sermons-kir/kir-gulfpt1.php3
http://freaks.monstrous.com/barnum_stories.htm
http://ink.news.com.au/classmate/takchall/Hoaxes/hoax_challmain.html

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:26:35 +0000

WC Fields said “Never give a sucker an even break”.

but PT Barnum did not say “There’s a sucker born every minute”, it was David Hannum. Don’t belive it? Read here:

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:20:44 +0000

Having some interest in SunnComm, the company that provides MediaMax, I checked out the files available on the P2P networks.

The files I was able to listen too were all junk. None of them were good files. Whether that has to do with MediaMax or the record company flooding the P2P’s with fake files I don’t know.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:41:51 +0000

Hi: I think you are referring to P.T. Barnum, when you ask who first used the sound byte of ‘There’s a sucker born every minute’. As to copy protection, whatever happened to the rights of the consumer to make an archival copy? Or do they sell you two copies in the same box so you don’t have to make a copy? With the low cost of CD media, and the ease with which they can produce UNLIMITED copies, the record companies are once again out to rip off the consumer while filling their pockets, all at the expense of the very people they are supposed to be keeping happy.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 09:20:58 +0000

It was PT Barnum, actually.