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Old 25th February 2003, 02:37 AM
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Other Copy-Protected CDs Hit North America and Possibly Europe
In addition to Avex's CCCD, there are other Copy-Protected CDs out there. Instead of completely preventing people from copying tracks onto their computer, the songs are simply looped over and over again. That means, ripped mp3 are the same 15-20 seconds of the song is looped in circles to make the track the same length of the original. I didn't realize this until a few minutes ago when listening to a few songs from No Doubt's album that were looped around about 30 times but matched the songs' original lengths. Does anyone know any others?

So far these are the only ones I know that are under this protection:

No Doubt -- Rock Steady
Eminem -- The Eminem Show (I haven't heard it, but heard about the same copy protection from those who have it)

After hearing about this, it's made me extremely mad at record companies for doing this. All I was intending to do was sample the songs then decide if I want the CD or not, but now I have the same 15 seconds of the songs repeated for nearly an hour. -_-
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