Beastie Boys album DRM’d
p2pnet.net News:- Claims that the Beastie Boys’ latest album To the 5 Boroughs comes with DRM have been confirmed for Europe, except in England where the album is being sold without ‘copy protection’.
Nor, says the band in a post on their web site here, is there anything nasty on the US release.
The site states:
- There is NO copy controlled software on US or UK releases of Beastie Boys’ ‘To the 5 Boroughs’
- The disk *IS* copy controlled in Europe – which is standard policy for all Capitol/EMI titles (and a policy used by ALL major labels in Europe).
- The copy protection system used for all EMI/Capitol releases including “To the 5 Boroughs” is Macrovision’s CDS-200, which sets up an audio player into the users RAM (not hard drive) to playback the RED book audio on the disk. It does absolutely NOT install any kind of spyware, shareware, silverware, or ladies wear onto the users system.
This is what EMI has to say about it:
Reports that “spyware” is being included on the Beastie Boy’s CD, ‘To The Five Boroughs’ are absolutely untrue.
While the Beastie Boys CD does use copy control in some territories, there is no copy control on the Beasties Boys discs in the US or the UK. Where copy protection is used, it is Macrovision’s CDS-200 technology; the same technology being used for the past several months around the world for all of EMI’s releases in those territories. This Macrovision technology does NOT install spyware or vaporware of any kind on a users PC. In fact, CDS-200 does not install software applications of ANY KIND on a user’s PC. All the copy protection in CDS-200 is hardware based, meaning that it is dependent on the physical properties and the format of the CD. None of the copy protection in CDS-200 requires software applications to be loaded onto a computer.
The technology does activate a proprietary Macrovision player in order to play the CD on a PC, and that player converts WMA compressed files to audio on the fly. It also temporarily installs a graphic “skin” for the player. Nothing is permanently installed on a hard drive. These details can be verified in the ‘install.log’ file in the computer’s root directory.
Still on the subject, EMI proudly boasts it’s involved with SunnComm and the latter’s MediaMax alleged copy protection software.
BMG’s Velvet Revolver’s Contraband hit the headlines as the first album “protected against unauthorized duplication” to hit Number One in the US.
Needless to say, it was already on the p2p networks when the ‘news’ came out, and still is.
(PS – Neat Beastie Boys site graphics.)
June 27th, 2004 at 2:47 am
well we might as well start up the BS propaganda that there is spyware in that release just like the big 5 say p2p is porno and criminality all wrapped up into one, their freaking out b/c it might affect sales, screw them, I heard that there are trojans on the new beasties album.
June 27th, 2004 at 2:52 am
There ARE Trojans in the new Beastie Boys album, basically it senses whether your playing it on a comp with a popular filesharing app and then reports back to big brother if you’re running a braodband con, like connected all the time, I smashed mine as soon as saw netstat showing me this, DO NOT PLAY THE NEW BEASTIE BOYS ALBUM UNLESS YOU USE A COPIED VERSION.
June 27th, 2004 at 2:53 am
Who cares BOYCOTT the RIAA
June 27th, 2004 at 2:54 am
yes thats the apathy that will eventually eradicate fair use. get smart, not lazy dumbass
June 27th, 2004 at 5:48 am
by spending money on this cd or othe RIAA cds you are supporting:
-Funding for DRM technology
-Payola (pay for play radio)
-lobbyists urging congress to kill fair use and criminalize millions
-Lawsuits issued blindly to kids, the unemployed, and the elderly without just cause
-oh yeah i guess you give the artist about 8 cents of that 15$ too, we can count that…
-conspiracy to price inflate (source: FTC)
-More
lazy? its lazy to walk into a store and pick up what CC radio tells you too. It takes energy to go to riaaradar.com or do other research to see if that new band you heard is in fact on an RIAA label.
get smart, not lazy dumbass