{"id":608,"date":"2004-03-17T14:37:47","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T14:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/03\/copy_control_pa\/"},"modified":"2004-03-17T14:37:47","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T14:37:47","slug":"copy_control_pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/copy_control_pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy Control &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow up to my <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000659.html\">previous entry<\/a>, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that the Norah Jones CDs available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fopp.co.uk\">Fopp<\/a> are different to the one I bought. They don&#8217;t mention Copy Control anywhere on the cover.<br \/>\nI did read somewhere on the web when I was fuming before, that EMI only use Copy Control in certain territories, and at the moment, they don&#8217;t use it in Britain. Quite how I ended up buying a European version I&#8217;m not sure, although the price I paid was a tenner, it&#8217;s widely available at around that price or less elsewhere.<br \/>\nAnd in any case, why should anyone have to put up with that copy control nonsense wherever they live? Indeed it makes a mockery of the whole thing that the CD is available unadulterated in some places and in a pseudo capacity elsewhere. So I get a UK version, rip it, and share it. Just as well this internet thingy is not some kind of international network. Since then people from abroad might be able to share my files.<br \/>\nThe bottom line is buyer beware. Look carefully at the pacakaging, and look for the Compact Disc logo. Quite how one does that with CDs bought from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\">Amazon<\/a>, I&#8217;m not too sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow up to my previous entry, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that the Norah Jones CDs available in Fopp are different to the one I bought. They don&#8217;t mention Copy Control anywhere on the cover. I did read somewhere on the web when I was fuming before, that EMI only use Copy Control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}