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I have a Foo Fighters CD, In Your Honor, that I bought off of ebay and it will not play on my computer without the obnoxious "clicks" which I understand is the copy protection kicking in. I know it's the copy protection because the disc plays fine in any of about 4 free-standing cd players.Here's the thing, I went to the Sony BMI website and downloaded the rootkit uninstaller, which, as I am sure everyone knows by now, Sony/BMI agreed to give out for free as part of the settlement of the class-action and other lawsuits that were filed against Sony/BMI for pulling this obnoxious stunt (see here: http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html) and the rootkit uninstaller says "XPC [the obnoxious copy protection rootkit software] is not detected on this computer"....
I still can't play the CD.
The uninstaller allows you to choose "uninstall XPC software" even after it tells you that it cannot detect the XPC software on this computer, so I tried that.
I still can't play the CD.
Anyone have any experience with this nonsense?
Sure would like to listen to my Foo Fighters CD.
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Topic - Anyone have experience troubleshooting problems with Sony/BMI music copy protected discs? - j_thunders 11:54:48 04/16/07 (32)
- Long rant on the SonyBMG rookit - J 22:14:49 04/16/07 (20)
- Good advice, but ineffective... - rw 06:51:03 04/17/07 (0)
- An Excellent, Accurate Summation - John Atkinson 06:39:32 04/17/07 (0)
- Thank You..... Very Informative..... - Todd Krieger 22:57:38 04/16/07 (11)
- I'll never buy a Windows computer again - J 11:22:19 04/17/07 (0)
- Looking for rootkits is illegal! - andy_c 23:04:47 04/16/07 (9)
- I Hope This Is Sarcasm....... - Todd Krieger 13:14:10 04/17/07 (0)
- That's what it says in the DMCA - J 00:17:31 04/17/07 (7)
- by your interpretation - tunenut 09:33:34 04/17/07 (6)
- No - J 09:48:36 04/17/07 (5)
- autorun - tunenut 10:13:11 04/17/07 (4)
- Obviously - J 11:07:41 04/17/07 (3)
- Re: Obviously - tunenut 11:16:58 04/17/07 (2)
- Unbelievable - J 11:24:30 04/17/07 (1)
- Re: Unbelievable - tunenut 11:31:37 04/17/07 (0)
- J, thanks for the informative (and long) post. - j_thunders 22:51:26 04/16/07 (0)
- To make a long story short... - andy_c 22:43:47 04/16/07 (4)
- Uhhh... - J 23:11:39 04/16/07 (2)
- Re: Uhhh... - andy_c 00:06:08 04/17/07 (1)
- Re: Uhhh... - J 00:46:06 04/17/07 (0)
- Looks like you have a new fan, J! - j_thunders 22:52:55 04/16/07 (0)
- You may be eligible for a replacement CD - andy_c 17:30:41 04/16/07 (1)
- Thanks. - j_thunders 20:28:57 04/16/07 (0)
- You have to reinstall the heinous rootkit to play the CD - Rob Doorack 15:38:26 04/16/07 (5)
- 'burn' an analog copy and 'rip' it again :-) - mhardy6647 17:20:40 04/16/07 (0)
- Nope! - j_thunders 16:34:52 04/16/07 (3)
- Buy the LP - guaranteed to have no copy protection! - Rob Doorack 19:23:18 04/16/07 (2)
- Or.. - mark111 07:58:30 04/17/07 (0)
- LOL, thanks. - j_thunders 20:27:49 04/16/07 (0)
- Warning - Mike B. 14:15:30 04/16/07 (1)
- It is. - j_thunders 14:37:14 04/16/07 (0)
- try to copy it to a CD-R - tunenut 13:39:25 04/16/07 (0)
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