I second that instinct. I've run across a couple of CD's that my wife's sony stereo wouldn't play, but I could rip with cdparanoia and then created a "real" redbook CD that worked fine. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Homic [mailto:chuck@vvisions.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 17:14 PM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Attorney asks son for advice on breaking DMCA On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 05:01:47PM -0400, Brian J. Conway wrote:

Now that I have your attention (almost), my Dad recently bought one of the

so-called copy-protected audio CDs and he is unable to rip it. ... Any ideas?

My first instinct is to load up cdparanoia and see what it says. Judging from the mass media interpretation of the copy prevention scheme... ie. "Invalid data track crashes windows" part of me thinks it would just work, since at no point would you be automounting an invalid ISO filesystem. On the other hand, it might be an invalid TOC, which means you might have to send cdparanoia some options. But if the CD works in a CD player, the TOC must be valid "enough" to point to redbook data that can be ripped. -Chuck _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug