New CD won't play

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:07 am, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel 
wrote:
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> On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:53:33 -0500
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> begin  Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> spewed forth:
> > Don't know if this is a linux issue or not, but here goes...
> > I have a brand new audio CD that plays perfectly well on my stereo and
> > in my car, but won't play on my PC. I have a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW (6x4x16x)
> > and a LiteOn IDE CD-RW (24x10x40x). Neither of which like the CD.
> > Other audio CD's seem to work fine, this new one doesn't. FWIW, it's an
> > import from Australia (the Dead Ringer Band).
> > Any ideas on what could be causing the problem and how to overcome it?
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> DRM (digital rights manglement, RIAA digitally mangling your rights).
> Take it back and tell them it's defective, you can't play it in your
> computer's CD.  The only way to fight DRM is refuse to accept delibrately
> broken products.
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I tend to agree, but wouldn't another way to fight DRM be by rendering the 
technology to "digitally [mangle] your rights" ineffective?

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