sony attack

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yesterday i had been reading some information from european sources.
do you know what?
the sony corporation will release a disc that if you put in the computer to listen or copy, it probably will hurt the entire system.
so many people are turning back this ...
those guys are very rich and want that people like us will suffered severe damages in our system for nothing.
to many musician are not agree, like limp biskit singer and others.
any way, to future, be carefull
 
i wouldn't worry so much. even if it happens, cheap consumers like myself will find a way to hook up a CD player to my soundcard, and still be able to make copies.

interesting news tho
 
Over here Sony did a strange thing with the new Cd of Arid, 'All Is Quiet Now'

You can't play it in your Cd-Rom anymore! Quite injustice I think. Someone who has the decency to buy the Cd can't play it in is his Cd-Rom but someone who downloads the mp3's illegaly can. So the honest buyer gets punished.
 
Haven't they been sued for using the logo, "CD" on these products because they don't conform to the original specs for that product?
 
Yeah. I read they had to pull the "Compact Disc" logo off the discs.
 
The process they use is interesting...

...they simply burn the CDs with embedded errors! The CD-R drives don't have the same sophisticated interpolation that CD-players have, and so the CDs don't play.... however, the listening is really hearing the interpolated data on the CD (over the error-areas) meaning they are NOT hearing the original music as intended!

Kinda defeats the whole point of hi-fidelity to begin with!!!

:rolleyes:

Boy do the record compnaies ever need a shot to the head to wake 'em up.... we engineers spend all this time worrying about maintaining the highest resolution, the best sound quality we can acheive and in the end, the record company burns CDs with errors in anyways, bascially trashing the original work, in a misguided attempt to stop copying....... yet if we went thru the analog process, the CD would copy anyways! :eek: :rolleyes: Idiots!!!


Bruce
 
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When you use teh analog argument, the answer I often get: 'but now it's not that easy that you just can copy the tracks with one mouseclick, you'll have to listen to them entirely before you can make a copy'.

Ok, but only one guy has to do it, who can pass it on so we're nothing further. Btw, what I wonder is how all those albums get on the net before they get released. It is told that you can allready find it on the net, while they even let journalist come to a listening session, and didn't distribute any promotional copies. Even the new system of a Down songs would be available, while they didn't even decide which one should be on the album!! There has to be someone over there who's not really straight:)
 
I haven't tried this myself, but this website http://www.presence-pc.com/news/index.php3?news=5305 (sorry it's in french, but there's a nice picture on it!) reports that the latest 'Céline dion' cd which is equipped with sony's protection shceme can be read in a cd-rom drive if you simply draw a black marker line (no, this ain't no green marker crap!) on a clearly visible circle, as shown on the picture...

Anybody wants to try this ??(just look at the pic!)
 
yeah, that story was also in the newspaper.

Fighting against illegal copies is hardly impossible I guess....
 
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