Copy protection

[Guest]

I play my music CDs on my PC as I don't have a Hi-Fi, a few days ago i tried to play a CD and it refused to work. I then noticed it had copy protection on it (i rented it from my library). I returned it, but the next day i noticed all my CDs were refusing to work, at first thought it was the CDROM, so i bought another, but same problem, my PC plays my itunes mp3's no problem.

There was some CDs back in the day that installed malicious software onto your computer to interfere with the operation of the CD drive. Sony were notorious for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Compact_Discs_sold_with_XCP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compact_discs_sold_with_MediaMax_CD-3

I went back to the library today but the CD has since been rented by someone else, so i can find out what the brand was. Sony has a patch now to remove there rootkit file, but it does not work on mine as it was not a Sony CD.

Is there a fix, maybe some sort of Universal Patch or other way to fix this.

Thanks.

 

[Cyberat_88]

You had to automatically run and install software off a mixed data/audio CD to get that accomplished. You can set your CD-Rom drive NOT to autorun anything.
Granted I never used Sony brand disc hardware on my pc, if you use anything but Windows Media Player with authenticity disabled, Winamp, Media Monkey or other 3rd party that does not check songs for copyright; i(crap)Tunes, Sony and other Copyright nazi software will definitely block you from playing music you do not own, such as the library. I am not advocating piracy here, but I always steered away from viral software like those. There are solutions out there such as resetting your CDROM region or leaving it region free, but I don't know how Sony hardware would like that.