Super Audio CDs Rolling Your Way

donutello writes "Slate is running an article about the Rolling Stones Remastered series discs having two layers: CD and SACD. The article contains some interesting information about how Sony is sneakily distributing SACD players without the buyers noticing it. This FAQ provides some information about SACDs. Don't expect to be able to play or reproduce these on your computer anytime soon. The SACD format contains a physical watermark on the disc. SACD players will only play discs with valid watermarks. Music watermarks had two opponents: The audiophiles who didn't like their music distorted and people who didn't like the watermarks preventing copying of the music. With the physical watermarks, they have found a way to appease the former while still stopping the latter thus causing a break in the ranks of the opposition."

Comments

Re:Sony = Lick me where I pee.

[Lochin Rabbar]

If you think women pee from their vaginas I guess you'll need a roadmap to find a clitoris.

Re:Sony = Lick me where I pee.

[__dtrance]

I read this as you wanted sony to clean your toilet with their tongues.

Well, that's assuming that you use a toilet....

For interesting effects, you could pee into some poison ivy.......

Re:Sony = Lick me where I pee.

[Ig0r]

You might as well call the location where you talk from the anus. After all, they're both connected to the same pipes.

This is about PROPERTY people!

[Sanity]

The copyright cartel are right about one thing, this is about property, it is about my right to know that property which I own won't spy on me, or prevent me from doing things that I have a legal and moral right to do, such as exercise fair use over copyrighted work.

Computers, and electronic devices in general, are increasingly an important way in which we interact with the world around us. They are increasingly our eyes, ears, and voice in this digital age, and they should work for us, their owners, not an amoral corporation determined to milk our culture for profit.

This is not to say that I disagree with people, or groups of people, working for profit, but I do disagree with the government tipping the balance in their favor at the expense of those who they are supposed to represent.

You wouldn't tolerate a Cop sitting in your home guarding, not you, not even the rest of society, but some faceless corporation who doesn't care about anything but their own profit - so why tolerate a Cop in your computer or CD player?

Re:Sony = Lick me where I pee.

[Ripping Silk]

or even more interesting, on an electric fence...