June 13, 2007

Linkin Park CD Has Hidden DRM

A blogger with RockStarFamily.com explains his copy protection troubles with Linkin Park’s Minutes To Midnight.

“… I went to pop it into my Macbook Pro, the CD never showed up in iTunes. And it never displayed in the Finder. … So I popped it in my work PC, and it opened Windows Media Player and allowed the CD to play, but, when I tried to view the CD’s contents in Windows Explorer, it showed the tracks as 1kb files … The true files are hidden. They secretly employed some type of copy protection to prevent my fair use. … There was no disclaimer on the CD packaging.”

by | 2:00 pm

20 Responses to “Linkin Park CD Has Hidden DRM”

  1. On 06/13/07 2:37 PM, Dan Diemer said:

    should’ve held shift.

  3. On 06/13/07 2:41 PM, Steve-o said:

    i think his mac was trying to tell him something….

  5. On 06/13/07 2:43 PM, andy said:

    Yeah the mac was like, “Sorry I can’t read shit”.

  7. On 06/13/07 2:44 PM, Steve-o said:

    my sentiments exactly andy.

  9. On 06/13/07 3:00 PM, Alex said:

    The next mac commercial:

    PC: Yeah, I’m totally rocking out to this new Linkin park. It’s got DRM so only I can play it

    Mac: Man, I wouldn’t touch that shit with a ten foot pole.

  11. On 06/13/07 3:19 PM, Jason said:

    Open any CD in Windows and they’ll show as 1kb files.

  13. On 06/13/07 3:21 PM, somebody said:

    it played and ripped on my mac.

  15. On 06/13/07 3:22 PM, andy said:

    Alex, if that was the new Mac commercial, I’d go out and buy the most expensive Mac I could afford right away! That would be so incredibly awesome.

  17. On 06/13/07 3:22 PM, somebody said:

    wait, is this whole post just a witch hunt to find LP lovers??? I mean I was just doing it for a friend. yeah, a friend. I don’t love LP, not that theres anything wrong with that.

  19. On 06/13/07 3:57 PM, xforewarnedx said:

    The first problem here is that you bought a Linkin Park cd….

  21. On 06/13/07 4:48 PM, England said:

    Oh noes! My noobrawk has been ttly pwned by drm!

  23. On 06/13/07 6:55 PM, dake said:

    seriously, because some dude can’t get a CD to play on his computers, we’re supposed to get all up in arms about some secret and mysterious DRM that he can’t even identify?

    if there is DRM on that disc, it should be labeled and something should be done about that. but, some unknown blogger going off about it isn’t really a legit news item, as far as i’m concerned.

    hope this is a little more legit than the pipe-bomb limo “story” from yesterday.

  25. On 06/13/07 10:04 PM, brad said:

    i read the guy’s full blog, he seems like kind of a dope… saying he’s going to acquire wmg music via “other means” and all… no thx.

  27. On 06/13/07 11:03 PM, The Theory said:

    [i]he bought a linkin park album!![/i] if that doesn’t automatically qualify him for “dope-dom” then I don’t know what does…

  29. On 06/13/07 11:08 PM, Buddy Mercury said:

    I love that my mac protects me from linkin park…

  31. On 06/14/07 6:07 AM, Karsia_Dave said:

    THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS OUTRAGE!!!

  33. On 06/14/07 8:23 AM, Alex said:

    “i read the guy’s full blog, he seems like kind of a dope”

    Maybe he was trying to insert the LPark cd into his USB port…

  35. On 06/14/07 4:31 PM, Seth Werkheiser said:

    you people and your “breaking news” expectations. This is Buzzgrinder, not MTV. Or Punknews. Or whatever. hah.

  37. On 06/14/07 5:33 PM, Jason said:

    Great news btw.

  39. On 06/14/07 6:13 PM, dake said:

    oh yeah. seth’s right. start linking to all sorts of wild allegations, rumors and publicity stunts. please search all manner of shifty, un-credible blogs. then we can just call this ap.net.

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