[geeks] Good bye music cd protection!

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:08:13AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
>>> MP3s are decidedly *not* for people who care greatly for sound quality,
>>> judging by the crap MP3s I've heard.  That said, I'm sure that I could
>>> bypass damn near any music copy protection scheme using simple equipment
>>> and create a very high quality recording.
>> 
>> All you need is a CD player with some sort of digital output, and almost any
>> sound card with a digital input, except for the SB Live!s.
>> 
> 
> Easy, yes.  Or optical out on a CD Player, which is becoming more
> common, and an Octane.  Done.
> 
> Not that I'm an audio geek at all, but it really seems very simple to
> me...

People whine because they don't want to have to purchase CD players with 
digital outputs.  Of course, nearly any DVD player will do the trick, assuming
that the CD will play in it.  If not, then it is all the more a defective
CD that must be returned.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd