New CD won't play

[C M Reinehr]

Tim Wunder wrote:

> 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?
>>
>> 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?
> 

This might give you personal satisfaction, but would do nothing to lead 
them to change their behavior.

cmr
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