couw likes music, but couw likes his wallet as well. ordering these disks in non CP format from the states is an option, but german custums are very good at their work and eager to please, and even if they wouldn't throw on another howmanypercentisitanyway, the disks would come more than twice what I pay for CP disks when I get them from this side of the Nile. couw proceeds to copy the disks to CDr which gets rid of the baked in errors and that's that.
sure these disks are probably more sensitive to bad handling, but I don't handle them bad. sure these disks may not play on a DVD player, but I don't have a DVD player. sure these disks may skip on my diskman, but the CDr copies don't. sure there are many complaints about this CP scheme affecting sound quality, but thus far they have not been solidified other than in highly subjective opinions; and in my highly subjective opinion, the music on these disks is pretty good and I have no complaints about the sound either. and sure I may be termed out of my right mind when I buy these disks, but hey, I'm a lazy bastard with a slim wallet and I want to hear my music. fussing about inaudible sonic differences and NOT getting the music because of that is silly too. and that is what it would amount to for me I am sorry to say.
lovely to know that these can be had for twice the money in non-CP form from across the globe, but whereas I may have a problem with a copy protection scheme per se, in practise it isn't all that big as it does not affect me in any way other than that an equally empty wallet means more disks in my racks. I respect the hell out of you all for your crusade to boycot and not buy these, but it's too rich for me to go elsewhere and I want to hear some new stuff anyhow every now and then.