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- fadein, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25"Thank you very much for purchasing this CD and helping the cause of 'Anti-Piracy'."
Oh joy! I feel all warm and fuzzy now. I'm not just buying a disc full of sell-out poser jingles, but I'm supporting a cause!
I'm sure those dirty eye-patch wearing pirates don't sleep as well as me tonight, now that they know that I'm allied with the Imperial RIAA, fighting the good fight! We will prevail! God is on our side, after all!
Down with Mac using scum! They aren't real people anyway. They probably write all of the viruses that infect my Windows PC, the bunch of sore losers! Why don't they just admit defeat and stick to making iPods and whatever else they are good at.
Oh, wait, Coldplay's record label doesn't condone MP3 players, so they must be filthy, too. I'll have to purge my evil thoughts before the thought-police come and arrest me for defying their order. 2 + 2 = 5! - wtfunkymonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Wait a second, I'm confused.
"Some CD players that posses CD-R/RW functions (such as portable players and car stereos)"
When was the last time you saw a car stereo that could burn CDs?
"Some car stereos with satellite "Guidance" systems"
What? Do they think OnStar is the new Napster or something?
"Some Game Players"
Now I cant stick the CDs up my rectum? Or maybe they are referring to game consoles...
"This CD does not support Macintosh PC software"
What exactly does this mean? You cant play it in Quicktime installed on windows, or are they of the mindset that Macintosh now manufacture IBM compatibles?
"This CD cannot be burnt onto a CDR or hard disk..."
If you 'burn' that CD onto your hard disk you have bigger problems on your hands than the RIAA, try 'data loss'.
MORONS! Freakin MORONS!
Dugg. - phraud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I like the sentence "In order for you to enjoy high quality music, we have added this special technology." The card then procedes to explain all the ways in which you CANNOT enjoy the music. It also mentions at the bottom that you cannot return the CD unless there is a manufacturing problem - I would say the problem is that they manufactured a disc that is severly limited in function - unlike 99% of the other discs out there.
- wtfunkymonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"It really shouldn't claim to be a "CD". It's really a proprietary, copy protected, won't play on most of your devices, audio disk. "
PCPWPOMOYDAD doesnt have the same ring to it. - BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Return this CD and tell them why.
- werewolves, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Synopsis: There is no such thing as "Fair Use"
Solution: Never Ever buy a CD again (http://allofmp3.com/)
Observation: And they wonder why sales are in the toilet... - glucoseboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Love the guy's comments......
"Un. *****. Believable. This is India, Virgin. INDIA. Piracy started here, dammit. You can’t play Nazi with India."
Digg. - disord3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7As if coldplay had a choice?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I dowloaded a copy of this album and it was awful. I deleted it a week later.
This is the main reason why Metallica pretty much started the anti-piracy war. They knew that their new stuff was God-awful, and figured that people would not buy the album if they downloaded a couple of tracks online. - Nerys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4that last part is a violation of law. it is NOT LEGAL to have a no return policy on anything that contains a license of any kind. you MUST have the option of DECLNING the license for it to be legal. I would return the CD and if they gave me a problem I would dispute the charge on my credit card (you will win)
Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/ - carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4cough
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22index+of%22+%22parent+directory%22+%22last+modified%22+coldplay+.mp3+-faq
cough - dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It really shouldn't claim to be a "CD". It's really a proprietary, copy protected, won't play on most of your devices, audio disk.
- Swift2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2CD sales, which had held steady last year, continued to fall 7% this year. Take the last four or five years together and you have what may be the beginning of the end of the medium. Interesting note: Britain has held steady, although they have a higher level of broadband adoption than the U.S. What's the difference? Their radio stations don't belong to four big companies, and their business model doesn't involve graft and payola. They play records -- imagine -- that the D.J. likes! Weird.
Whereas, for us, the radio has become just another corporate crap machine, so why pay any more attention to it than you pay to the junk mail in your real mail box or the junk e-mail. Trash it! - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow. Just wow.
- thank you for paying too much for this CD.
- btw, even though you purchased this, you can't use it within your legal rights
- also, this CD may not work at all
- even if it doesn't work, we don't care. We're not giving you your money back. - mouthster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Coldplay is the poor man's Radiohead.
- lwdallas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dear Virgin:
There are real social evils out there. Leave my CD player alone and go crusade the tragedies in Sudan or where ever. - h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Mac has nothing to do with it, it rips just fine in Windows. Let's not turn this into a debate between the fanboys.
- streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think 5% of you actually RTFA'd.
Of course your own copy of X&Y didn't have this leaflet B E C A U S E T H I S I S T H E I N D I A N R E L E A S E .
Not the US release. This "article" is about the one that was released in INDIA. If you bought yours in the USA, you did not buy the Indian release.
Seriously, Digg needs to have some sort of RTFA-enforcing cookie. - count_z, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As long as you don't have autorun on and/or run the crap software on the CD you can rip it and copy it just fine. But honestly, since so many people are buying MP3 players now, trying to block them from using the songs as they would like (and as they are entitled to under Fair Use) will drive them people to iTunes... so that they can pay $2-3 for the few good songs on an album instead of 14-16 bucks for the whole thing.
Not too bright on the part of the record companies. - junkfood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Do we know what CD that was? Which Coldplay CD?
We should post warnings on Amazon. - brandonhines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wait a second, I'm confused.
"Some CD players that posses CD-R/RW functions (such as portable players and car stereos)"
When was the last time you saw a car stereo that could burn CDs?
Playing CD-R/RWs. - JAWS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Since we slashdotted it to death...
http://itch.in.nyud.net:8090/journal/bad-bad-coldplay
I agree, great site layout. The coral extension is for those not-in-the-know yet. - frankjmattia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2if you want to use allofmp3.com make sure that your credit card company supports the feature of "virtual card numbers" where you can have your card-bill-pay website assign you a random card # to use for online purchases... combine this with the one-use-only option and limit how much money it lets you take out and your perfectly fine. they cant use your creditcard# again.. you wont get hijacked.
25$ on there will get you about 10cds - Live4Soccer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I was very close to buying a bunch of CD's to give out as Christmas presents. However, many of my family members use iPods. All the CD's I was interested in buying said "Copy Protected - May not work with all iPods". So instead of buying 5-6 CD's this holiday season I didn't buy any."
This says it ALL. This sums up the STUPIDITY of the RIAA and their DRM policy in a nutshell. "So instead of buying 5-6 CD's this holiday season I didn't buy any."
So who's REALLY killing the record industry????? Computer illiterate Mom's and old men or idiot 1960-1980 Harvard Business School Grad Record Execs who still think FM Stereo is Hi-Tech and they still have the privilege of exclusivity.... - Prez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Time to download mroe Music apparentlly they are not getting it. We want cheap digital solutions for music and movies not more stupid protection on the hard copies.
- djvinnie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This reminds me of earlier this year when someone put an advance copy of X&Y on our shared drive at work a couple weeks before it was released. One guy in the office, despite being a hardcore Coldplay fan, refused to listen to it or burn himself a copy.
Instead, he waited the two weeks, rushed out the morning of release, purchased the album, rushed to his car, tore open the package, poped the disc into his car CD player, and was met with "Disc Unreadable". He returned the disc, but had the same problem with the second (and third) copy he got. On the third exchange attempt a manager was called in, and he was informed that it was the copy protection that was preventing him from playing the CD in his car.
He kept the CD, but was forced to burn the previously boycotted tracks in order to enjoy the music where he wanted to. - markperia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my X&Y cd didnt have that. lol. maybe i was lucky or i bought it early before they implemented this.
- britkev1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This is one of the two CD's I actually purchased in 2005. It did not come with this warning card and I was able to rip it to mp3 with no problems. Must be a newer thing they added...maybe they thought Sony were getting away with it, why can't we!
- Netweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This crap is on many CD's in Australia regardless of your taste in music.
If you did rip this you may find you only ripped the 'data layer' version of the audio. Some CD drives will show both layers in Nero. Other players do not show the 'Audio' layer with Nero.
Here is a site that shows you how to copy the 'real audio layer' as it has a normal 'Audio' layer and a 'Data' layer on it.
http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/~haahrm/copying-protected-cds/
Information on the companies and individuals involved with 'Copy Control'
http://www.copycontrol.org/cc/index.htm
The WikiPedia article on this disc protection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control
The IFPI information for 'Copy Control'
http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/press/20020917.html
Think what you may on Coldplay how about the other 302 'Media Discs'
http://hotbuttereddeath.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/001184.html
And another list with a UK flavour
http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/bad/
Coldplay can be contacted for a promotion via this page directly on Skype.
http://www.skype.com/campaigns/coldplay/ - invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i'm going to send emails to the record labels of bands i *was* going to support.. but thanks to their war against america, they have lost my patronage
remember kids, when you buy a CD from a major record label, you support terrorism. - tsangal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another CD I won't buy until these companies get a ***** clue.
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 So does the anti-skip feature in portable CD players (or any modern CD player) that stores a few seconds of music to prevent skipping, violate the rules? It would be making a copy of the music.
After seeing this there is no way I'll be buying a CD ever again, especially if this is going to be the way compact discs are made from now on.
Even worse is here in Canada each blank CD I buy already has a royalty fee added that goes to certain music companies. Not only are they charging royalties on things that may or may not be used for music but they want more! - Kuth678, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"itunes copy pretection is so stupid all you have to do is burn it to a disc and import it"
No kidding... U think Apple really cares. The half hearted copy protection is there to make the RIAA happy. - brinser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I had no problems on my mac with this CD.
- gamabunta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1itunes ripped coldplay fine for me.
- dixonr315, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Pretty lame, but I had pre-ordered it months ago on iTunes and got some bonus tracks and a video with it so I am happy for that. But this whole locking up the physical CD to the point it may not even play in certain players is insane, at least put all that disclaimer stuff on the outside of the cd, you know in that plastic wrap that is almost impossible to break open lol.
- thidranki, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I was able to copy this CD to my computer without any problems. I have a mac though, maybe thats why.
- kris2pe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah I agree make sure you return the cd & tell them why you returned it!!!
I believe you can return the item even if they that's their return policy bcoz you can claim that you weren't aware that anti-privacy software was in this cd!!! Or less get a lawyer!!!
Its not only Virgin who made this decision. I believe artist also have a say to whether their cds will b drm enabled or not!!! So crew you Richard Branson & shame on you cold play!!!
Thank God I never buy a Cd EVER!!! - tomscott, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the best copy protection they did was making it a coldplay cd... i can't imagine anyone who would make copies or download that rubbish
- goldenratiophi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Something tells me I'd better hurry up and finish my Pink Floyd CD collection before Capitol starts doing this. As much as I like having CD's instead of digital downloads, this is getting out of control. (Actually, it has been for that past few years...)
- Chimichanga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>Return this CD and tell them why.
Even with their nice little disclaimer at the end, I'm pretty sure you could explain to your retailer that it is definitely a manufacturing problem. DRM arguments aside, they should say on the outside of the CD that a known problem with the CD is that it won't play in a considerable amount of players already on the market. It's amusing that EAC ripped it fine though. - sneakerelph, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3wtf? "it should play in normal CD players"
what constitutes normal? car stereo seems normal to me. that is the crappiest thing ever. buy the CD, then download the music off some filesharing. does it say anything on the back of the jewel case as to how you're not/supposed to use this? if not, you can take it back saying you didn't know the terms. that should be covered under law. piece of crap RIAA!!!! - jborg91, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I was going to buy this CD, but after reading the warning about how many devices it "may not" play on, and that they won't accept returns, what's the point?
What an incredibly stupid move on their part. - brinser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0GO bittorent
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For what it's worth I've used allofmp3.com for years now and LOVE them. I will only buy CDs from small labels now like Grady's http://www.shadygrady.net
- oroson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow that's too much. T.T Just when I was starting to think that maybe I should just buy Cd's again. I think the reason a lot of people buy CD these days are.
1. Control being able to rip it and choose your own quality.
2. Archive and actually OWNING the media and content.
3. Fancy packaging and adding something to there CD collection.
I feel they have kinda kicked reason 1 and 2 out with these kind of actions. This can only hurt them really. I don't think they are going to fear people out of sharing information and music on the net no matter what they do. CNN can run its "Is your kid stealing music?" "Something that is in your house that could send your to jail" stories but I don't even think a lot a parents are even aware or care if a kid is downloading music legally or illegally. - iambeefy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have to agree with firebird2110. When I first saw the picture it looked fake to me, and now 2 other people say they have bought this CD and it didn't come with it. Hmmm
- fb1273, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Greedy ***** record companies, they all suck!
- TimmyK., on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>>>posted by goldenratiophi "Anyone notice the oxymoron? "Macintosh PC"..."
Since when are Macs not PC's? You just don't know what PC stands for and wrongly assume that it only refers to Windows machines. Apple was making Macintosh PCs long before Windows existed. PC = Personal Computer. It's perfectly right to call a Mac a PC.
>>>posted by GeneHACKman "This is the main reason why Metallica pretty much started the anti-piracy war. They knew that their new stuff was God-awful, and figured that people would not buy the album if they downloaded a couple of tracks online."
That is probably true. In actuality CD sales went sky high during the time of Napster, when there was FAR more downloading going on. I firmly believe that downloading helps good artists sell albums because people get a few songs online and want to hear more, so they buy a CD or two that they wouldn't have considered before (I know I've done that A LOT). And conversely it hurts bad artists (i.e. the garbage that the RIAA companies push the most, and make the most profit from like Brittany Spears and the like) because people download the songs, don't like them, and avoid the CD. So yeah, a band like Metallica, who is so far past it's prime that it isn't even funny anymore, wouldn't want people to hear their crap until they have already given them the money for the CD. I used to laugh at how many copies of the new CDs from bands like Metallica would be at the used CD stores shortly after it's release. People would buy them and inflate sales figures based on fond memories of times when the bands music was listenable, and then get rid of the crap new CD as fast as possible. I've actually noticed this happening less in the past year or two. Too bad they couldn't adjust CD sales numbers based on how many copies were then sold second hand by unsatisfied listeners.
Anyway I notice that this is from India. Has anyone in the US confirmed anything about this CD being DRMed? I know music labels are far more likely to put copy protection on CD's in other countries than they are in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if the US version of this CD doesn't have the DRM. - vitorsilva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just wish RI AA where in Portugal, so that i could sue their asses off! Here, we have the LEGAL RIGHT TO MAKE BACKUP COPIES FOR OUR SELF'S (ear that RI AA?). It would be funny to see them trying to prevent me from using my rights with their copy protections. It would just be too easy to get millionaire. :)
By the way, i too hate RI AA although i don't live not even in the same continent as them. I just wish it was not even on the same planet, but one cannot have everything.... -
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