Re: can't play music

On Jun 8, 6:42 pm, "housetrained" <housetrai...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Recently bought another laptop and copied my music files (originally ripped
from CD's) from the old laptop to the new. Now WMP10 says I have no right to
play them and won't let me. HELP!"
TIA

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John the West Ham fan
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The answer given by Mike Poz likely will solve your problem, if it can
be solved.

You say you ripped your music from CD. Unlike most commercial DVDs,
CDs are not encrypted, and, at least in the US, you have every right
to make copies of your music for your own use. However it is illegal
to sell it, give it away, or put it up on file sharing sites. To avoid
this problem in the future, do not use any media player that sells
music, such as WMP or Real, to rip a CD. Create a file structure
organized any way you like, and label it something other than My
Music. Set WMP, Real, or any other commercial players you have that
sell music with digital rights not to scan this file looking for
music. Use a program such as Easy CD-DA Extractor to rip your CDs,
convert file types if you need to, and to burn as a normal CD, WMA, or
MP3 CD. Such a program may cost you a little, but just because
something is free does not always mean is desirable. Consider the flu.

Back in the early 1980s, when CDs first were sold, no one considered
making them encrypted. Back then no one dreamed you could someday burn
CDs at home, and a factory to duplicate CDs cost many millions of
dollars. More recently, some media companies tried to fix some CDs so
you could not rip them on a computer. Some added a data file that
caused problems. Some added errors that often did not cause problems
on playback, but that caused problems in recording. However nearly all
of the better ripping programs easily can handle such CDs now.

This all goes back to the days of early VCR recorders. Media companies
and the equipment companies had lawsuits against one another that went
all of the way up to the US Supreme court. Media companies did not
want the user to record tapes from anything other than their own home
made video. Of course there would be little market for such a
recorder. And many VCRs were used mainly for time shifting of TV
programs. The equipment companies won. When commercial DVDs were
released, another war started. The media companies decided to encrypt
the DVDs so that they could not be ripped and the DVD player and
recorder companies had to provide decryption that would work. But this
was soon broken, and programs to decrypt DVDs sprung up all over the
place. In fact there are a few places where writing and selling
decryption programs is not illegal. The full legal battles in this
area are far from over. However, the laws in the US and court rulings
seem to indicate that it is illegal to give certain technical
information or sell programs to decrypt DVDs. However the jury is
still out on if an individual can rip an encrypted DVD. This will take
more court decisions to be certain, likely will take a few years, and
perhaps several cases that go to the Supreme court. All of the legal
fees associated with this likely will buy some very high priced
lawyers some very nice new homes, high end autos, and vacations to
fancy resorts.


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