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Burn a DVD-AC3 Compatible CD-R

Posted by chrisd on from the zoiby-wants-to-buy-internet-stocks dept.

grant+harris writes "This interesting article shows how it is possible to burn AC-3 audio onto a normal CD-R. Will this technology usher a new type of online piracy when DVD-Audio and surround sound systems become more commonplace?" While this is only audio, it is a good step in the right direction.

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  1. DVD-Audio? by nedron · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What does AC-3 have to do with DVD-Audio? DVD-Audio uses Meridian Lossless Packing, not Dolby Digital. The DVD-Audio disc may also have an AC-3 or (preferably) DTS track for backward compatibility, but the main mode is MLP.

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  2. Does it make a difference what the RIAA thinks? by G0SP0DAR · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At this point, where everyone with a computer and a CD burner are considered potential thieves, I don't think it changes the light in which anti-piracy advocates view computer users. It couldn't possibly get any worse!

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  3. What? Slashdot Advocates Piracy? by antis0c · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Will this technology usher a new type of online piracy when DVD-Audio and surround sound systems become more commonplace?

    Then we have the comment from chrisd:

    While this is only audio, it is a good step in the right direction.

    Yeah, finding new ways to easily pirate software is a step in the right direction. Wrong. Getting the manufactures and owners of such technology to start believing that not all people are theives and they can allow open standards to exist to allow copying for backups, personal use such as having a copy of said music in my car player; while in my house; or at work is a step in the right direction. All this will do is piss off the RIAA/MPAA, they'll lobby for stricter laws, and we're back here again.

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    1. Re:What? Slashdot Advocates Piracy? by jcoy42 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Okay, so how is this a new way to easily pirate software?

      Is mixing a 5.1 audio stream, burning it to CD, and listening to it pirating software?

      Tell me what I'm missing here. I don't see how it is pirating or how it is software.

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  4. Please don't use their new-speak... by Sanity · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...unless you really believe that copying some bits is really the equivolent of boarding a ship, raping and killing those on-board, stealing what is left, then burning the ship and the bodies of those you have murdered.

    If you want to refer to violation of copyright law, then please call it what it is.