Re: copy protection

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Aaron Birenboim wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 09:43, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Aaron Birenboim wrote:
> > 
> > > I have some disks which I cannot rip.
> > > This is a new experience for me.
> > > 
> > > xmms seems to be able to play them.
> > 
> > Clearly you would rather use paranoia, but there are other tools, cdda2wav
> > uses the (old) paranoia library,
> 
> OH MY!   cdda2wav actually seems to work on these disks (so far!!!!)
> WOW!
> 
> At least I don't seem to be fighting some mysterious new
> copy-protection scheme (the disks my friend cannot rip,
> but can play on Windows, were purchased last month)...
> we are now talking about some problem with the
> new cdparanoia... or my system.

Before you get too overjoyed, I have to say that the problem may be with
the new paranoia, but it may be that there is a problem reading the CD and
the old library isn't picking up on it. Unlikely, but possible.

> 
> Since this is a frankenstein system build out of parts
> from various old computers...  i repeat....
> was there not some command to get some sort of vendor ID
> codes from the IDE chips and/or disk devices?
> You know... those strings the kernel or BIOS reports
> when booting up?  That might be of interest...
> 
>          aaron
> 
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bill davidsen <[email protected]>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.