Excessive Copy Protection?, Mp3 related Options

[Dub45]

This may be old news to some of you but its the first time that I have come across it.

I have just bought a copy of 'Round about Roma' by Stefano Di Battista on Blue Note.
This disc does not seem to have been released in the US yet.

I put it into my pc to have a listen while I browsed and suddenly a player that I had never seen before appeared! Anyways the cd provides its own player but apparently will not allow me to use my usual player to rip it as I usually do for use on my ipod.

When I opened the cd through explorer it does not display the audio tracks separately.

This is infuriating (I dont share MP3s on the net and I don't download them) but I can't listen to an album that I have bought as I would wish!

I presume the introduction of the player is to get over the complaints of cds not being playable on pcs.

Any other incidents of such cds? What are other people's views?

Incidentally I tried to copy it on a 'normal hi-fi type copier and it wont copy either!

[outscape]

>>>'Anyways the cd provides its own player but apparently will not allow me to use my usual player to rip it as I usually do for use on my ipod.'<<<

heh, the player that keeps popping up, is it called "EverAd"? if it is, then it looks like the CD is protected with midbar's cactus data shield. and of all things, the "compressed" files the player plays are mp3 files created with LAME, wrapped around this stupid .CDS format that midbar created. pure hutzpa!

btw, did you check the copyright info on the CD, where is says © 2003 blah blah recordings, etc. does it say somewhere © 2003 cactus data shield courtesy of midbar or some kind of shit like that?

>>>Any other incidents of such cds? What are other people's views?'<<<

oh there are plenty of "copy-disabled" CDs around, especially in europe and japan. my view on this issue: return it to the store and tell 'em to shove it! get your money back. copy-disabled discs are non-standard CDs!