[Gllug] Warning: copy control CD

[Rev Simon Rumble]

A work colleague just brought in the new Asian Dub Foundation album
for me to listen to.  It's released on one of EMI's labels and comes
enhanced with "Copy Control technology".

This means, of course, that I can't play it back on my computer here
at work without using their "player" crap.  This thing installs some
dodgy codec on the Windows machine at work, requires a restart and
then plays back 47k versions of the tracks.  It sounds appalling!
What's more, with the least amount of other system activity, the
crappy player software skips.  Amazing!

I imagine when I get this thing home, I won't be able to play it on my
Linux box.  Does anyone know a way around this?

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
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