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Presenting The CDR-ROM

Posted by chrisd on from the don't-give-aol-any-ideas dept.

nachoboy writes "Here's a cool new idea: the CDR-ROM. Allows a portion of the CD to be written and them mass produced, leaving the remaining area recordable by the user. It may sound funny, but if AOL started sending out CD's like this I might just start keeping them around."

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  1. What would be better by sulli · · Score: 4, Funny

    would be for AOL to use CD-WOM (Write Only Memory) technology.

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    1. Re:What would be better by countzer0interrupt · · Score: 3, Funny
      would be for AOL to use CD-WOM (Write Only Memory) technology.
      What, so then you couldn't read the data?
    2. Re:What would be better by PD · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, in case the filesystem on /dev/null gets corrupted, you have a backup.

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    3. Re:What would be better by alexburke · · Score: 4, Funny
      would be for AOL to use CD-WOM (Write Only Memory) technology.

      Elmer Fudd would approve.

      /me ducks

  2. Copyright by geogeek6_7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not a big jump till we get to the C-DRM or CD-MCA huh? :P

    ~geogeek

  3. Overload.. by _marshall · · Score: 4, Funny

    So let me get this straight:

    We've come so far ahead in technology that we now have Recordable Read Only Memory!?

    Maybe I should invest in that frozen hell stock after all..

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  4. Different demographics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) People who would use AOL.
    2) People who actually know how to burn a CD.

    You'd have more success packaging foie gras with Milwaukee's Best.

  5. Re:good idea by Jondor · · Score: 4, Funny

    yeah, and then we collect them, fill them up with porn and let them lay around in places.. Maybe we can even take bets on howlong it will take for the first lawsuit accusing AOL of distributing pr0n..;)

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  6. AOL cds? NOOOOOOO by DrStrange66 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If AOL used this technology getting by AOLS auto-run installation would not be worth getting to any files burned on them.

  7. Great for hiding porn! by Jonny+Ringo · · Score: 4, Funny

    No one wants to touch an AOL cd. ewww.

  8. Good Plan, But You Forgot A Step! by Myriad · · Score: 3, Funny
    1) Release CD of Music, Software, etc.
    2) Place in computer and run program
    3) Program reads BIOS, Hardware config, Windows GUI, etc.
    4) Program writes this data to CD-R portion
    5) Use CD on a different machine -- whoops data doesn't match calling "Piracy Police"

    Good plan, but you forgot the most important part:
    6) Profit!!

    (sorry)

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