MOS CD's will not play on computers

richt71

I bought a dance cd from ministry of sound this week. I tend to listen to my cd's while I work from home on my laptop. Perfectly reasonable I thought. But oh no I get a warning message saying that mos cd's are pirate protected and can't be played on a computer. I was very annoyed so I called the contact number and spend ages trying to get it resolved only to be told that they are now making all their cd's non playable on computers. Talk about a sledge hammer to crack a nut! Told them I actually thought they'd encourage people to pirate their cd's as there must be loads of people now a days that use their computer to play cd's! :mad:

rygon

take it back to where you bought it from and get a refund. theyre really cutting their nose off to spite their face

Fatso_the_wombat

richt71 wrote:

I bought a dance cd from ministry of sound this week. I tend to listen to my cd's while I work from home on my laptop. Perfectly reasonable I thought. But oh no I get a warning message saying that mos cd's are pirate protected and can't be played on a computer. I was very annoyed so I called the contact number and spend ages trying to get it resolved only to be told that they are now making all their cd's non playable on computers. Talk about a sledge hammer to crack a nut! Told them I actually thought they'd encourage people to pirate their cd's as there must be loads of people now a days that use their computer to play cd's! :mad:

If you were so inclined, you could take it back to the shop and ask for a refund, as it is not fit for the purpose for which it is intended. It is not unreasonable to expect a CD to play in whatever CD player you put it in.

Furthermore, CDs with copy protection violate the Red Book standards (which govern the specifications of what a CD is) and are not, technically speaking, CDs.

rygon

and why buy these mixes (which are as stale as 100yr old bread) when you can d/l free mixes off the internet which some bedroom dj has put up for free...much more exciting to listen to

JasonW_2

Well the only way they will listen is to let the record company know you returned it and why. If enough people do this, they might stop this stupid behaviour. And also if the price of CDs was even double what it cost to produce, they could still sell it for a few pounds and afford to pay the artist what they get now. I havent bought a CD in over 3 years. Incidentally, there are ways round playing these CDs which also shows what a pointless exercise it was to have this "protection". Most listeners want to simply listen, but if someone sets out to copy it they will do it no matter what, by whatever method. As long as a code or protection is written by man it will be broken by man.