Can Linux be used to copy copy-protected CDs?

There's this new copy protection scheme that's designed to prevent copying CDs to a PC, even for personal use by causing audible pops and clicks whenever the music is copied.

Can a digital filter be made to remove the clicks and pops so people using Linux can still rip CDs?
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6604222.html? tag=mn_hd

It doesnt work unless you're using a very specific set of hardware/software combination.

I own 3 of the CDs in question, and I had absolutely no problem ripping them, encoding them to mp3 and distributing them throughout the world with gnutella. They sound just fine.

I don't see why not. Their are digital filters in the commercial industry that converted old platters over to CDs quite well that did remove the noise and popping and hissing.

You are an idiot.

His sarcasm wasn't obvious?

He is incapable of sarcasm. Frightning, eh?

I don't understand. Why would they go through all the trouble of making click and pop copy protection, if it really doesn't work after all?

Its' indicative of suits not understanding the technology they're selling.

The way I look at it, this sort of thing serves a higher purpose, though. Most of the young nerds, who buy computer games and music, cut their teeth by breaking the protection. (It's how I learned assembly back in the 80's <g> They become better programmers for it!

I was assuming what he (Aaron) meant was that to easily bypass it, do a sector by sector copy rather than direct audio-audio copying.

Matthew Gardiner

Not to someone as ignorant as me!

... and that helps you to rip it to MP3 *how*, exactly?

I don't own any of the CDs in question, but I would try out cdparanoia on them, as it is very conceientious about correcting errors in the CD. What worries me about this technology is that the CD makers are saying that the side-effects of it are 'barely noticable on a standard CD player'. What does that mean? If the music is down low and you have a crappy system you may not hear it?

If I ever do end up buying one of those CDs, then I'll be sure to rip it to WAV so as to get rid of such annoying artifacts, then I'll re-burn it back to a pristine CDR and throw away the silver press.