Attention, Covenant fans:

[reddragdiva]

Unlike the European edition of Northern Light on Sony, the US edition on Metropolis is apparently not copy-corrupted and does not feature the Macintosh-wrecking Key2Audio rubbish. Time for a mail order.

Comments

[reddragdiva]

Interesting. Any mentions of Key2Audio or similar? Does it actually have a 'Compact Disc Digital Audio' logo on the case, card or disc?

[nils.livejournal.com]

It came in plastic wrapping with a sticker saying "will not play on PC/MAC" (and another sticker with tour dates). Can't find the CDDA logo anywhere. On the disc itself it says, in silver on grey and in letters so tiny you can barely see them, "Auf PC/Mac nicht abspielbar". (That's German for "not playable on PC/Mac".)

I've just tried it again, it does indeed play from my CD drive (well, DVD-writer actually). Took a couple of tries before iTunes picked it up, but that may have been my impatience...

Interesting indeed.

[naughtypixie.livejournal.com]

The drives it won't play on are the ones that are also CD burners (superdrives, and the CD-RW/DVD combo drives). Other drives are usually fine. I'll say "usually" because I had 2 superdrives side by side, one worked with a celene dion (it's my test CD because no one gives a damn if it's destroyed) and one didn't... likewise 2 DVD rom drives (which don't burn CD's) did exactly the same thing.

Basically, it seems to be that if you haven't updated your firmware under OS 9 then it's fine... and if you have updated your firmware under OS X then you're also fine. If you fit neither of those conditions you tend to be screwed (again, not guarenteed).

The logic of this leaves me speechless. The annoyance of this leaves me in a state to use large explosives on Sony (where's hatchet when you need him).

[nils.livejournal.com]

Mine is a superdrive, and I haven't updated any firmware or anything (might worry about that when I get broadband...). Haven't tried all that many copy-protected CDs (heck, I don't own many, and I intend to keep it that way), but this one plays fine.

I suspect the best (only?) way to make the bastards listen is to stop buying their products...