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Copy Protection On CDs Is 'Worthless'
zotler writes "NewScientist.com has an article about how copy protection on audio CDs is worthless. I thought this was funny since I just read this earlier Slashdot article 'BMG copy protecting all CDs'." The article also neatly sums up the technology behind current fair-use-inhibition stratagems.
...they didn't mean to say "The music on copy protected audio CDs is worthless"?
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a black sharpie pen is priceless.
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Leave it to the british to add up to ~140% on a poll graph.
"Reduce the cost of new CDs; if discs cost only a few dollars each, buying them might be preferable to spending the time and effort to make copies or find them online."
is this man insane??? doesn't he know that making an audio CD is a horribly expensive thing and the HUGE royalties given to the artist forbids such tactics?
Oh wait... someone hit me in the head with a 2 by 4 again..... sorry, my bad... I lost my mind for a minute there...
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
It obviously didn't work to prevent all of the Britney Spears and New Kids on the Block copycats.
As expected there is nothing the RIAA can do to stop this rabid army of "pirate downloaders" that i PROUDLY call myself a member of!! hear that, eat me METALLICA!!!!! and that old bitch can suck on some redhotdonkeynutz!! woohoo hahahahahahaha
They could give out a Big Black Guy Named Ben (tm) with each CD.
"Don't copy the CD mother f*beep*cker"
Xaotik Designs
What's stopping people doing this?
Wait? You haven't heard? All music published after January 1, 2003 will be encoded to sound like Al Gore singing songs from John Tesh's Greatest Hits album. But if you buy now (only $399.99, plus shiping and handling), you can get your very own pair of Rosen3000 (TM) ear implants that will filter the noise and let you listen to your favorite RIAA sponsored artists.
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for the miost part
You must have meant moist, referring to that Britney Spears - Yowzer that is moist.
LoRider
Oh, so you can actually BUY cds from the store without having to download them from the internet for free?? Wow, Its so hard to keep up with current technology these days.
Then I'd figure that you are either that guy with all the punctuation marks on his suit who keeps telling me to buy his book about free money, or that you are Crazy Al from Crazy Al's Free Used Cars and Free Music. How can he give away free used cars and music, I'll tell you how, because he's crazy, that's why. And if you don't leave the lot happy, he'll eat a bucket of scorpians...
Xaotik Designs
However, it's more fun to implement this with a microwave than to buy them pre-destroyed.
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
A suggestion to the music industry: stop producing CDs and bring back the vinyl records.
Now, why has not anyone in the music industry come up with this yet. Clearly, after every 30 seconds of CD-listening, the copy-protection contained should ask (with a sexy female voice) guestions like : "On page 3, of the pamphlet that came with CD you purchased, which one of the following ten options best describes the hair color of Britney Spears, punch ff>> 1-10 times to enter your answer". Simple as that, copy-protection re-inveted!
Not to be offtopic, but i think this is the first post to include, in the sig mind you, a link to goatse.cx that hasn't been modded down to iota. I just thought that was funny.
She makes me all anxious. Like Bugs Bunny in drag.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
I, for one, refuse to buy new CDs anymore, but that doesn't mean that the dozens of people who turn to me as their local geek don't. The lil ole lady who lives next to me got sent some CDs from her son (who's overseas ATM), and couldn't figure out why they wouldn't play in her new(ish) CD player. You try explaining to a 90 year old luddite the intricacies of CD TOC practices and Redbook.
BTW, how does having a corrupt TOC adhere to the Redbook? Just curious how they managed that.
So, anyways, I end up bringing the f*cking things over to my place to burn off onto *real* CDs for her, which unfortunately ends up with her seeing my setup when she brings me over homemade cookies to say thanks. Next thing I know, I'm putting every bit of music she owns to CD... and I mean *every*, considering I have a turntable, cassette, CD (old-skool, to read those f-ing cds), and 8-Track all on my line-in. So I end up spending all day and night pulling off all this music (it took days and days of 24 hour play to get this stuff in), and more days and nights of doing some rudimentary cleaning on pops and crackles. She ends up so happy with it, she tells everyone else in the complex about it during the monthly condo meeting... I now have a computer slaved to nothing more than audio reads, and literally SHELVES of cookies and cakes and preserves and everything else you can think of. If you consider the average phono/tape/8-track/cd to be roughly 1 hour in length, it's going to take me over 3 months just to read this shit in.... and it still hasn't stopped. They don't even say hi anymore, just leave a stack of music at the door with a bag of something homemade on top... the guy from the other end of the complex left his DVD player and a bunch of out-of-region DVDs for me last week (he's maxxed his region changes). And every time I say I'm too busy for this crap, whatever sweet lil grannie it is this time looks up (wayyy up, I'm 6'4") and says "Don't worry dear, whenever you get to it. I kind of like the silence."
Therefore, based on the imperical evidence of the growing hell life is becoming, coupled with the expected dentist bills I'll get soon from all the cavities I'm sure to develop, I'm forced to conclude not only that copy protection == PAIN, but also that CP==EVIL. And, based on this, I'm lead to the conclusion that Hillary Rosen must be the bane of my existance.
It's time for it to end. I can't take another day of "The Beach Boys greatest hits!". Someone tell me where the bitch lives. It's time to go give her a cookie.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
Ahhhh... you mean when music really was *music*, and there was a tune and you could understand the words... yes yes yes !
Oh wait, I'm turning into my dad....
Never, ever lose a file again. Ever.
Um... Didion, I like your style and all, but you're kind of an asshole. You know that, right?
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Is this like "Never get into a land dispute in Asia" or "Never go in against a Sicilian when Death is on the line"?
"My God...It's full of ads!" -Fry, about the Internet, Futurama
I do purchase CDs (mostly less-than-mainstream bands who aren't crap) but I can echo your sentiments exactly. There's a store here (Big Lots, basically they sell somewhat crappy merchandise at great prices) that I go into whenever I'm getting my oil changed to pass the time. Everytime I do, I walk out with a stack of CDs, all costing about $3. Sure, maybe I don't *want* this orchestral arrangement of the Eagles' greatest hits...but you just never know when it might come in handy! Especially at those prices!
haiku...
/haiku
at the planned conference,
Mr. Halderman's Sharpie
is displayed; he leaves.
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Um, Didion, I need a blow job.
It will only take you 15 minutes.
You hear that guys, Didion's giving bj's for $12.50 a pop.
Of course, you'd probably never end up needing to pay for the full hour. . .
Judging by his username, I'm thinking he's got a Chrysler that's as a big as a whale (and it's about to set sail!).
Hear hear! I was doing 'IT' for friends and family before it was called 'IT' and before people charged $50/hr for it.
:)
Every single time, I gave a long lecture about how to use it and sat them down and explained it to them.
Those that kept calling even after that, I pointed tehm to a manual and/or went over there, fixed the problem, and gave them an exponetially longer lecture.
You know what? It works rather well... Those who don't want to take the time to learn their product don't call me anymore....
Because if you've ever heard my lectures, you'd understand
So now they're justifying the cost of CDs because of promotion? Who started paying radio stations to put song in rotation in the first place?
"We started trying to use underhanded methods to get our music played, then it became standard industry practice, now you get to pay the cost."
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
I don't see Sears blaming "pirates" on lower washing machine and refrigerator sales.
I spent 5 days downloading the latest Maytag Washing Machine. It was totally worth it.. I was able to get it 3 weeks before Sears had it!
My only problem is that my clothes are all pixelated now, and you can hear someone coughing when the dryer is on.
Maybe if they offered more in the box, I'd actually buy a Washing Machine. You know, like some behind the scenes extras, and maybe a biography of the Maytag Repair-Man.