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Fighting Music Piracy with Glue
Scott Granneman writes: "The New York Times (Free Blah-di-blah) is reporting that Epic Records, in an effort to prevent reviewers from creating mp3s or even playing the preview CD in anything they don't control, is not disseminating the new Pearl Jam and Tori Amos CDs inside Sony Walkman players that are glued shut. Oh yeah ... the headphones are glued to the players too, to prevent any authorized output. A low-tech answer to a high-tech issue."
"I brought this discman home with me, and I found a way you could go in the back of the CD and, like, pop it open. So I got the actual disc out."
So, they can't even use glue properly, its not wonder everything else has failed.
Get the EULA T-shirt
according to my girlfriend, a RABID Tori Amos fan, this is nothing new. She's apparently always done this.
Not that it matters, though, as I've had 7 tracks from Scarlet's Walk for well over two months now...
then you can take a look at each others walkman collection ;)
Privacy is terrorism.
Use those greeting cards that play a tune when you open them.
Pay Tori to personally visit each reviewer with a guitar and play her songs.
Distribute the songs in Ogg Vorbis format. (rimshot)
What's your damage, Heather?
I'm gonna start reviewing CD's. Can't make a living with my reviews, but sure can use the extra income from the unglued diskmans I sell.
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...would just have to be glued to your ears to prevent someone else from listening to it.
Wenn ist das Nunstueck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
I'm sorry, your post is in violation of the DMCA. Please turn yourself in to the authorities immediately.
... by glueing the earphones to the ears of the reviewers. Disposable reviewers will be needed, though.
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"The chances of a demonic possession spreading are remote -- relax."
I guess they must be assuming journalists are not engineers, as otherwise they could just cut the headphone wires and them connect them to their favourite input.
:)
Thus making wire cutters illegal under the DMCA
So is hitting the walkman with a hammer an offence under the DMCA...?
Thus making wire cutters illegal under the DMCA :)
I always use my teeth to strim wires - are they illegal too?
"So is hitting the walkman with a hammer an offence under the DMCA...? "
Not if the disk inside is Tori Bush..er, Amos.
I thought it was apropos that the origional posting came from the morons-morons-morons department.
The problem is rouge reviewers putting the music on the internet
I hear ya brother! Those damn ladies' makeup magazine writers are the worst! Freaking Cosmo!!
Oh.
Never mind.
There are two kinds of people: 1) those who start arrays with one and 1) those who start them with zero.
"Put it on something that can't be digitally extracted."
8-tracks, baby!
"In an effort to prevent reviewers from creating MP3s or even playing the preview CD in anything they don't control, music labels are now disseminating a prewritten review of the CD, along with a bill for $17.99."
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
In this case, I'm sure that a decent lawyer could successfully argue that gravity could be used to circumvent the 'glue lock'. My reading of the DMCA text leads me to think that any device or method used for circumvention is illegal. Dropping the unit would be a method. Hmm, guilty of dropping the unit? Then jail time for you. I would not want to accept such a liability for a simple review.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
I noticed that certain pages in my friend's twat magazines were glued together, presumably to prevent unauthorised copying.
A deep feeling of sympathy for the battered and bruised music industry?
::cough::
No one's gonna mess with the "little guy" who's just protecting what meager possession he has, right?
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
what is the world coming to?
And if it will prevent just one 12 year old from downloading music they would never buy anyway, then it will all have been worth it.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Yes.
Only, your mouth is already illegal since you can speak copyrighted IP outloud.
We'll expect you to say goodbye to your loved ones and turn yourself in immediately.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Kid A was sent out encrypted? Ah, that explains it then.
Stick Men
... they obviously misunderstood.
Of course, I haven't shopped at Radio Shack in years. Odds are, someone has declared them to be terrorist tools or something...
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
"...they must be assuming journalists are not engineers..."
Hey, here on Slashdot journalists aren't even journalists.
They introduced a high-tech protection scheme that prevented any duplication. The new discs were extremely unpopular among computer users of the day since they wouldn't play in LP-ROM drives.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
> So, they can't even use glue properly, its not
> wonder everything else has failed.
Actually, they *are* using glue properly, and that's the problem!
Of course, that explains the RIAA's policies towards their own customers. Valenti must have been drunk or doped up when he compared using a VCR to rape. Go figure.
1. Open player with your favorite screwdriver/utility knife.
2. Remove CD. Rip, mix, burn.
3. Replace CD in player.
4. Back over player and headphones with your car.
5. Return electronic crumbs to Epic Records in plastic bag, claiming you "dropped it".
Problem solved...
To a Lisp hacker, XML is S-expressions in drag.
It's pearl jam and tori amos, the record companies are just admitting that with a walkman that's as good as it's ever going to sound. Plus they're sending a nice little signal that if you listen to such music don't bother the people around you with it (use headphones). :)
"Do not be swept up in the momentum of mediocrity." - anon
But, since they are not disseminating music on devices designed to prevent authorized output, the original post was correct, no?
- "That's just the kind of fuzzy-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten."
IANAL, but I think that under the DMCA, wouldn't the Dremel tool would be considered a circumvention device (the same goes for sledgehammers and big rocks) and therefore illegal? Stores like Home Depot would pull them off the shelves for fear of being ruled contributory infringers.
Sigs are bad for your health.
cut headphone cord
expose the 2 wires
attach standard line-out connector
plug into line-in on soundcard
Voila!
geeks are cats who dig a certain kind of cool
In fact the act of strimming wires has been illegal for years -- regardless of what body part you use to do it.
You pervert.
3. Replace CD with crappy Kenny G. CD
4. Write review about PJ's new stuff being really "mellow".
5. Return CD player to company.
It'd take them months to connect the review to the player. The look on their faces, as they opened the player, would be classic.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.