The Canadians got Smart!
Jun. 12th, 2003 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearWEA Spain and WEA Germany, up 'til now the only sources for Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003, decided to do the "copy protection" thing, which in essense corrupts the CD in order to prevent cdrom drives from reading it and making copies. This is, of course, an insulting and degrading practice, both in treating the customer like a criminal before they've even bought the product, and in handing out an inferior product (minor scratches like those that come from car cd players can wreck more havoc in playback).
Well, it seems that Warner Music Canada, in their distribution (mind you, there's no U.S. distribution yet, but importing from Canada was cheaper than importing from the EU or UK), decided to NOT corrupt their copies. Meaning it played instantly on cdroms, I was able to make clean cd copies for my car (which has wrecked cds before), and I have it in mp3 format for playing on my portable mp3 player.
There are legitimate Fair Use reasons for making copies, and its nice that SOME record labels (even when technically part of the SAME record label) recognize that.
The liner notes say "Manufactured by Warner Music Canada, Scarborough, Ontario". Seems Ontario's been real nice to me twice this week. :)
Well, it seems that Warner Music Canada, in their distribution (mind you, there's no U.S. distribution yet, but importing from Canada was cheaper than importing from the EU or UK), decided to NOT corrupt their copies. Meaning it played instantly on cdroms, I was able to make clean cd copies for my car (which has wrecked cds before), and I have it in mp3 format for playing on my portable mp3 player.
There are legitimate Fair Use reasons for making copies, and its nice that SOME record labels (even when technically part of the SAME record label) recognize that.
The liner notes say "Manufactured by Warner Music Canada, Scarborough, Ontario". Seems Ontario's been real nice to me twice this week. :)
