what is cccd?

cccd is copy-control compact disc

I used musicmatch JUKEBOX and it rips CCCD like a it's ripping a normal CD.

Also... there are other forms(or something) of CCCD...
There's the one Sony Music uses: Label Gate CD & Label Gate CD2

With Label Gate CD you won't be able to play the CD on your comp unless u go to a site and get a sort of access code.
Label Gate CD2 CDs enable you to play the CDs on your comp without the access code.

http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/cccd/

-_-

I can rip all CCCD protection CD too

It depends on type of ur CD drive...Mine is an old CD drive (History)...LOLZ

Maybe it can't detect those advanced CCCD system

Actually, U can record the album by Window media player as a WMA format then convert them to MP3 (I dun find any different of its quality ~ )

i have ripped all CCCD with absolutely no problem with Musicmatch Jukebox. some people say it is a hardware constraint. i kinda agree, as some people say sony cdrom drives dont let you rip cccd. for me, i use LITE-ON cd-rw and dvd and dvd-rw drives, and they all rip cccd fine!!!

Did Alicia Keys latest album have CCCD? I have it, tough I haven't tried ripping it... Also, Dido's latest album is supposed to (Tough its no match for CloneCD) along with Pink's (Just the same) and Anastacia's (Can't be played on WMP, only in the Sony Music Player that comes in the CD)

I have ripped my original Rainbow CD with dBpowerAmp 10, no problem, it's like other CD. I really dont undesrtand why avex lost money by protecting some CD... Waste of time, waste of money (the CCCD logo over the cd package etc...)

I've seen a lot of people saying that MusicMatch rips the protected cd's with no problem. But that's because MusicMatch automatically switches to the analog mode when it detects that the cd is protected. So it starts ripping the cd in anolog mode..

I've ripped RAINBOW with Nero V.5. My friend couldn't do it on his ripping program, but maybe my burner is older, and doesn't understand CCCD.

Hooray for the dark ages!

iTunes works just fine for me.

Does it create any problems like that software Sony Music had?
Also, how do I remove the player it installs in my comp?

Yup, same here.

I've read many replies on e-stores that the new Britney Spears' album "B In The Mix" has some kind of protection (like a CCCD) which is like a virus that it's installed in your computer when trying torip it and then it won't allow you to rip anymore...

I wonder if this is some kind of violation forit has something that gets into your PC without you noticing.

Maybe if Avex didn't want the people to rip Ayu's albusm they would have used something like that, ah? Because as I've read, the CCCD protection it's not that effective.

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Oh, I forgot to say and I edited this double post -sorry!- that my copy of rainbow it's not CCCD, were all of them supposed to be like that?

I'm not pretty sure.
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My copy of RAINBOW (OS ver) has CCCD.... Anyway all the stuff thats been going around about Sony's copy control CDs is worrying me, I ripped some CCCD Avex j-pop cds. And that player is installed in my comp.

Yup yup.

Now I know what was going ont with this CCCD thing... as posted on a science magazine: "This whole thing of the copy protection it's already backfiring onto the companies for artists such as Ricky Martin, The Coral and Celine Dion had this kind of protection called XCP (Extended Copy Protection) on their CD's which installed some kind of software which actually worked exactly the same as a trojan-like virus and a special player which won't alow the user to rip the cd's and in any case of uninstalling it, it will make the PC not to recognize the CD Drive affecting thousands of buyers and users.

Due to the pressure of media and public th company started to distribute another program to safely uninstall the program but they had to return the CD's and their moey was given back. Then this program was called a malware which is the name for those software as virus, such as spyware that enter ilegally or damage the computers."

Taken from Muy Interesante Science Divulgation Magazine
Translated by ME (-^v^-)

I ripped the CD with iTunes. It was just like a normal CD :D