Dion's new CD crashing party for some users

[L3onheart]

LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Celine Dion's latest release is generating heated discussions on Internet message boards. But the subject under fire is not the star's music -- it's that the CD will not play on computer CD drives.

Epic/Sony released "A New Day Has Come" embedded with Key2Audio copy protection in Germany and several other European countries. According to a spokeswoman for Sony Music Entertainment, it is clearly stated on the front of the booklet and on the back of the jewel box that the CD "will not play on a PC or a Mac" in the language of the country in which it is sold. Besides those notices, which the spokeswoman said were readable before purchase, the disc itself bears the same warning.

Should the consumer try to play Dion's CD on a PC or Macintosh, the computer likely will crash.

Some fans believe that the CD is more damaging than that, however. On the German discussion boards at MacFixit, Mac users claim that the CD will not eject using normal methods and that the intentional corruption of the disc's session data could unpredictably affect the drive's firmware. (Firmware is a combination of hardware and software instructions that are permanently embedded in the hardware's controlling chips, such as with a computer's CD-ROM, and altering it could cause permanent damage.)

Sony denied these allegations. "The CD will probably cause a system to crash, but it will not alter anything," the spokeswoman said. "And it won't eject properly, but that's just because the computer has crashed."

"New Day" was released in the United States on Tuesday. Industry watchers expect it to sell more than 500,000 copies by the end of its first week.

More than 10 million discs using Key2Audio CD-audio copy protection have been produced and sold, primarily in Europe. Key2Audio is a product of Sony DADC, a 100% affiliate of Sony Corp. of America headquartered in Austria.

News source: Yahoo News

[underscorebios]

Greedy music industry they suck bigtime, and those shouldn't even have a CD logo on them since they are not compatible with the red book standard, and it's not only on computers that they will not play, many modern audio cd drives have data correction features alike those found in pc cdrom drives so those probably won't play them either, and most likely they won't play on DvD drives to. I can't believe they are doing this, it only hurts the costumers by hampering the product.

[Pugsley]

is it just me, or am i the only 1 who doesn't wanna buy Dion's new album, let alone make copies of it?

[underscorebios]

No it's not just you hehe...

But hey tastes will be tastes...

[Big Booger]

use your external player and input jack to make a burnable copy of the CD? I mean with audio cards being near perfect, wouldnt this be almost as good as a traditionally ripped cd?

Just wondering. I mean try as they may, nothing will stop the peeps with the knowledge, drive, and determination to release filez!

here is a good article on audio protections

http://www.cdfreaks.com/document.php3?Doc=57

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php3?ID=3799

www.cdfreaks.com/document.php3%3FDoc%3D48%26Page%3D3+Key2Audio+hack&hl=en&start=6" target="_blank">http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:IIKXy...=en&start=6

By the way, I just downloaded that entire album of Celine Dion, hehehehe.

The copy protection is working great, only to **** off the average joe schmoe, who can't play their 20 dollar CD in their computer anymore!

HAHAHAHA

BB

[arsekicker]

It's already available on our favorite burro.

Just checking, not like I'm going to download this ****e.

[+Spark99 Subscriber²]

This is a blatant violation of 'fair use' laws

I have the right to make mix CD's of songs that I've purchased -

Not that Celine is gonna find her way on any of my mixes...

Boycotting it is pointless... It'll still probably sell millions.

There are ways around the encryption if you want a perfect copy anyways(fibre-optics from CD player to soundcard)

If the music business wants us to play fair - then shouldn't it?

[baphomet_irl Veteran]

in all fairness I think the PC world is better off without her music eheh ;)

[Gooey]

No I don't care much about her music but if I buy a CD I want it to play in a CD player, no matter if it's in a stereo or a PC. What's next, a bespoke Sony player that will only play their CD's?