I was bitching a couple days ago about not being able to rip the new Kings of Leon album, well… David H. left me some good advice and pointed me to the following page. So with my new found knowledge I went and picked up the CD at my local best buy. ($9.99!)
It turns out it is simply a matter of disabling autorun, then you can rip to your hearts content. The problem is if you let it autorun once then it installs some kind of hidden driver to stop you from ripping. (How is this not spyware?) Thankfully I read about it before popping it in the drive.
Anyone want a copy? ;)
-James
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You need to fix the "following page" URL.
This seems a really dodgy practice on the part of the CD maker – who gives them permission to install software on our computers?
Whoops, got it fixed.
As an interesting aside, if you were running non-admin, you probably wouldn’t have this problem as you (and consequently the CD) would’t have the necessary privileges to install the protection software. Yet another reason (you needed more?) to run non-admin.
Ahh good old copy protection.
WMP 10 is realy good at getting round most protection systems, but sites like doom9.net should help you with future problems.
hail hail
The whole "disable autorun" trick is pretty old and works on basically every CD Audio based protection.
Obviously you could have simply pressed SHIFT while you inserted the CD to temporarily disabled autorun but oneday you’ll forget so disabling the feature is the best way to go.
Hey-
What if, like an idiot (me) you RAN the damned .exe file. I didn’t know what the computer files were and thought it might be something cool. Now, I b screwed
JW
info@wunderlesound.com
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