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Originally posted by Combatsanta
I think i have bumped into a new copyprotection, or maybe i havent.
Well, i bought a new cd by Teddybears STHLM today, its a sony release.
The front has a label with that nice black roundish thing that means that the cd is copy protected. And it also says "Copy protected & pre-ripped for pc"
The back label have a couple of names on it, OpenMG (the format that they have "ripped" the tracks in (dont like it)). EnhancedCd, watever that means and another logo that reminds me of the macromedia logo.
Anyway, i have tried a few programs to rip it (EAC and CDex) no one worked. Also tried to clone it after i had scanned for copy protections. didnt work, the end result was a backup that sounded like someone had scratched it realy much.
No of the tools i used for identifying the protection worked  (not for me anyway)
i have this nice link that i got with the cd http://www.copycontrolhelp.com/
Anyone who have stumbled across something like this, or have any tips or tricks.
Oh and the drives i have used are these
Samsung cd-r/rw sw252f
Pioneer dvdrom dvd-106
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Usually I don't really check if any copy-protection is on a CD, but as it says everywhere u can't play em on a Mac. I tried em on all 3 of my Macs. It just mounts the data partition and the music partition.
The readme even tells u can't put it on a iPod.
It can copy to the machine without problem in acc and mp3, and I can copy the Audio partition as audio cd directly which automaticly removes the data partition (and the protection) which makes it so u can play it on all other machines (also pc) and copy it (also on a pc).
Can't find any protection here.
I tested it on 3 diffrent mac.
All running Mac OSX 10.3
I think the text is to scare off ppl.
The protection is that the music partition is not mounted, so only thing u would need on windows is a app that can mount partitions normally not found (like I used todo for hybrid cd's in the early cd days on classic Mac systems). Mac OSX just mounts anything it can read.
This is the Anastacia CD and DVD (just a normal DVD).
Same text on it as in the quote. Enhached CD is officially a technolagy by apple to put track names on the CD as data (there are cd players which support this still). But I don't know if this is what sony means with enhached. And yes that is the macromedia logo, there seems to be a macromedia movie/local site. Lots of pics on it from the cd and stuff, don't feel like checking rest on the data, but found that the xml index files has the mime of every file (all extentions of files are .000).
I think that
cd-da extractor just looks at the music partition.
Sry, but this is not what I call copyprotection. If I didn't read it, I wouldn't have known, it was there.