I recently bought an audio CD only to discover that because of the ‘copy control’ features on the disc, the CD refused to play on my ‘standard’ car CD player. To begin with I thought there was something wrong with the player.

However with a little research I have discovered the scam that record companies are trying to pull on us consumers, selling us on ‘corrupted’ discs designed not to play on computers and other non standard devices.

The irony of it all is that to get around this I just used a product called ‘CD-ex’ to rip the tracks off the CD as MP3, then burn them back to a new disc for playback in my car.

I think this really sucks, after all once I have purchased a CD it’s up to me how I want to use it, isn’t it? I don’t have a home CD player, I play audio through a ‘SLIMP3‘ which is networked to my PC, so being able to ‘record’ tracks that I have paid for so that I can listen to them in the manner which I wish is a requirement.