How can i rip copy protected audio cd's?

SylvainP · 03-03-2004, 06:11 AM

The other users are right about the laws in the U.S., it is illegal there to circumvent copy protection, no matter why you do it.

Have you tried cdparanoia? I know I've been able to rip CD with it that other software weren't able to do anything with. (the cds weren't copy protected though, just scratched)

To the person who is not able to play his Celine Dion CD: Maybe your computer just has better taste in music then you do...

shanenin · 03-03-2004, 10:50 AM

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What is even scarier is that is also illegal to tell others how to circumvent copy protection. That's why you'll no longer find DeCSS code posted on a US-based website.

You would think that would be covered under free speech. I used to own a book called "methamphetamine manufacture" , which is completley legat(free speech).

For the record I never manufactured it, and I have been clean over 4 years.

Pedroski · 03-07-2004, 10:21 AM

What cd do you want to copy? Is there something that cdrdao can't handle? Maybe you just need another cdwriter, bit newer.
Or try growisofs or dd or mkisofs.

fsbooks · 03-07-2004, 01:49 PM

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What is even scarier is that is also illegal to tell others how to circumvent copy protection. That's why you'll no longer find DeCSS code posted on a US-based website.

This is nolonger true, or at least has been seriously challenged. A recent California appeals court ruled that the DeCSS DVD decryption computer code was a free speech issue because there was no evidence that the Content Scrambling System (CSS) encryption technology used in DVD movie disks was still a trade secret by the time that Bunner posted DeCSS code on his website. See: http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DVDCCA_c...227_eff_pr.php