NSync Copy Protected CD

admiral2001 writes "This article from NewScientist.com details the most mass market venture into copy protected CDs. Namely, NSync's new CD will be released in a least 3 different versions (with different copy protection techniques). Also, one of the types has (small) labelling saying that the CD cannot be played on computers."

I'd boycott but...

[rw2]

I suppose boycotts work better if you were actually intending to make a purchase. Damn the man, foiled again!

Wait a sec

[SnapperHead]

nsync already has some great copy protection. There fscking music! Why on gods green earth would anyone want to listen to it, let alone copy it!

Oh, come on...

[1337 $14X0r]

N'Sync? This one's just too easy ;)

I overcame one of the three copy protections

[garoush]

"...at least 3 different versions (with different copy protection techniques)."

I was able to copy the CD on my flat-bed copier without any problem and I ened up with a good color, detail, et. al. quality.

However, a friend of mine ended up damaging his copier as he was trying to squeeze the CD through the copy feeder on his non-flat-bed copier.

I don't know about the third method of copy prevention -- as I haven't figured it out yet.

Re:Part of bigger problem, not just N'sync CDs

[jazman_777]

You are all sheep. Think for yourselves before posting a stupid response to a real problem

What problem? I don't listen to NSync.

Haiku

[575]

Copy protection:
As if one needs more reason
To not buy N'Sync

Versions, eh?

[Denor]

NSync's new CD will be released in a least 3 different versions

CHANGELOG:

- Initial release
-- CD uncopyable
-- Band unlistenable

- 2.0 release
-- Fixed 2,144 bugs enabling people to copy CD. CD now uncopyable.
-- Changed demographic to younger audience; teens beginning to sense lack of talent. Note that this breaks backward compatibility

- 3.0 release
-- Fixed 53,944 bugs enabling people to copy CD. Gave up.

- 3.0.1 bugfix
-- Fired previous maintainer when it was discovered he had a soul.
-- Fixed another 128,535 bugs enabling people to copy CD. CD uncopyable.
-- Discovered simple cabling could be used to make a D-A-D copy. Sucessfully lobbied to illegalize cabling.
-- Hired armed enforcers to prevent people from humming songs.
-- Added technology to CDs to prevent any sort of listening to them whatsoever. Players now burn in unholy flame.
-- Band still unlistenable.

Re:Good test

[Chakat]

But then again I've always considered buying/copying/returning very immortal..

You mean I don't need Alex Chiu's immortality rings if I buy copy and return? [slashdot.org]

I know you meant immoral, but still, I had to do this. You may fire when ready.

Bye, Bye

[circletimessquare]

Bye, Bye, Bye
Hey, hey
Bye, bye (bye, bye)
Bye, bye (bye, bye)

RIAA I'm doing this tonight
You're probably gonna start a fight
I know this can't be right
Hey RIAA come on, I loved you endlessly
And you weren't there for me
So now it's time to leave and make it alone

I know that I can't take no more, it ain't no lie
I wanna see you out that door
RIAA bye, bye, bye

(Bye)I don't want to be a fool for you
Just another player in your game for two
You may hate me but it ain't no lie
Bye, bye, bye
(Bye)I don't really want to make it tough
I just wanna tell you that I had enough
Might sound crazy but it ain't no lie
Bye, bye, bye

Oh, oh you just hit me with the truth
Oh RIAA you're more than welcome to
So give me one good reason RIAA come on
I live for you and me
And now really come to see
That life would be much better
Once you're gone

I know that I can't take no more, it ain't no lie
I wanna see you out that door
RIAA bye, bye, bye

(Bye)I don't want to be a fool for you
Just another player in your game for two
You may hate me but it ain't no lie
Bye, bye, bye
(Bye)I don't really want to make it tough
I just wanna tell you that I had enough
Might sound crazy but it ain't no lie
Bye, bye, bye

I'm giving up I know for sure
I don't wanna be the reason for your love no more
(Bye, bye)
I'm checkin' out, I'm signin' off
I don't want to be the loser and I've had enough

I don't wanna be your fool
In this game for two
So I'm leaving you behind
Bye, bye, bye
I don't wanna make it tough
But I've had enough and it ain't no lie, bye-bye

NSYNC DISCOVERS NEW MARKETING TECHNIQUE!!

[suso]

It's simple really. Release a rumor to the slashdot community that your latest CD has copy protection (when secretly it doesn't) so that all those quick-clickers can start a grass roots movement to buy millions of CDs and return them. Only they find out that they can't return them because there is nothing wrong with playing the CD.

Honestly, I don't know whether the CD is really copy protected or not. I just thought it was interesting to see all the slashdotters wanting to go out and buy a CD.

nsync.sourceforge.net ?

[opkool]

Hi,

Why would an opensource project start distributing its product with copy-protected CDs?

As a proof of concept? But it is silly...

I guess I would stay with my old rsync or direct CVS...

Wait a minute! Is this a software thing? or something else?

Regards

wait a minute..... is that

[feelicks]

nsync? more like n'stink (_*_)

Re:nsync.sourceforge.net ?

[Lunastorm]

Maybe it's a product to make a open source alternative to the voice enhancers N'Sync uses. I am eagerly waiting the arrival of opeN'Sync

This is just beyond copyright protection...

[neema]

Often, companies will be unwilling to sell heavily copyrighted materials if they think it'll hamper sales so much.

But if they slap it on an N'Sync CD, which, whether you like it or not, is going to get a large amount of CDs bought, they can always use the CD sales and say "Hey, we had copyright protection and the consumer liked it. Lets go ahead and put it on everything."

NSync is a Conspiracy

[Anonymous Coward]

NSync is part of a grand conspiracy; let's call it "Lolita". NSync's fans are all women, right? You are thinking "no, they're girls". According to politicians, they are girls; according to scientists, they are women--fully capable of reproducing.

Whenever these cons finish a show, thousands of their fans (except the one or two who go backstage for some backdoor lovin' from A.J.) are unleashed--swollen vulvas and all--onto an unsuspecting populace. They begin to seduce men in droves. They return to Conspiracy HQ for DNA sampling. Within days, police begin mass arrests. The men are quickly found guilty and given long prison sentences--we're talking about drug-dealer sentences, not those wussy rapist/murderer sentences. WalMart and other companies reap the benefits of the conspiracy by purchasing their Cheap Plastic Shit® from prison labor camps (cheaper than overseas labor!). The number of such men in prison has far outpaced the number of incarcerated drug offenders. No mention of it in the media, tho.

Re:Idiots

[Anonymous Coward]

Yah, I'm sure hackers around the world will be anxious to crack an N-Sync CD.

Re:Ya know what sucks..

[Goldberg's Pants]

Dude! Has it ever occured to you to maybe be a bit more careful with your CD's? Copies or not!

Re:What should be done...

[zhensel]

Of course, that whole policy is due to the rampant buy/copy/return scheme of a few unsavory souls, which, as we all know, is gloriously defeated by the copy protection scheme on the media you purchase. You could always bring that argument up when trying to return your uncopyable item.

"I'm sorry sir, we don't accept returns on opened digital media."
"Why is that?"
"You could have copied the media and then returned it."
"But," as the customer takes out his microscope, "it says right here that this CD is uncopyable."
"And your point is?"
"So not only do you presume me to be a criminal, but you're an idiot. Thanks a lot. Have a spectacular day."

At least that's how I envision my conversation will go when I go to return my new N*Sync CD.

Re:Pool

[Tackhead]

> From what it seems, there's a bit more to it than this. I would immagine that each version of the cd has a different watermark on it. They know that it is still gonna be ripped & coppied, they just want to find out which protection scheme is gonna be broken by the most people. The version with the least number of copies out there will be the format the industry settles on.

So, when no geek could be bothered to buy and rip the unprotected version in the presence of the (slightly) more challenging alternative of breaking the protection, the music industry concludes that people are more likely to rip/encode copy-protected CDs than unprotected CDs.

The industry, in a blinding flash of sanity, then throws copy control technology into the dustbin of history (where it belongs), and the world goes back to normal.

(Hey, I can dream, can't I?)

Nope. Real solution is - custom labels!

[Anonymous Coward]

Why bother buying and returning when you can have much the same effect (making the CD's econmomically infeasable to sell) with a whole batch of specially printing "warning labels" you slap on the CD's by hand?

Soemthing along the lines of "Danger! This CD will not allow you to make copies for your personal use." should be about right. You might want to get a second hand printer from eBay (or a local computer show) just to make sure they can't track you from ink patterns or something equally paranoid.

Re:What about this?

[Anonymous Coward]

a male to male connecter

Seems strangely appropriate for N'Sync...

Hmm

[Drath]

First they came for Nsync but I did not speak out because they were crap.
Then they came for P. Diddy and I remained silent because I did not like rap.
And then they came for Bob Dylan and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Re:GOOD

[Watts Martin]

If you start arguing who is better, Brittney Spears or Christina Agulera I will have to shoot you.

Of course. There can't be any argument, Christina Aguilera is obviously better.

And I bet she uses Emacs, too.