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Music Companies Bemoan New High-Cap Portables

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-lot-of-lake-woebegone-days dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist reports: 'The music industry this week condemned the launch of two recording systems that will let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single disc.'" The Sony system is supposed to use "ultra-efficient data compression system used in MiniDiscs" to fit "30 hours of MP3 music" on a CD-R. (I thought MD used ATRAC rather than MP3, and that ATRAC's standard bitrate was 285.3 Kbps -- can some MD gurus bring us up to speed?) Philips' system skips CDs, and instead uses a DVD burner, with the resulting disks playable in a to-be-released portable player. I wonder what kind of DRM features the companies will use to cripple each system.

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  1. meow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    meow to labf

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anonymous, too

  3. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I claim this first post in name of the CLiT!

  4. last post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    urg urg urg

  5. Anybody else here love to fart? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or is it just me?

    1. Re:Anybody else here love to fart? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hell yeah.

      Don't you love when you're just sitting around, and there's a slow, gradual buildup of gas in your abdomen... nothing noticeable at first, but slowly it builds and pushes you into discomfort... then you rip a huge smelly fart, and you just feel so light and refreshed afterwards. Man, it just don't get better than that.

      I like taking a big dump, too, for the same reason. Taking a whiz is cool too.

  6. Runny ass eggs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can I get them in me? Ya know,in me?

  7. Please kill the industry -- I hate bass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The constant bass'rs that drive by my house really piss me off.

    Please copy as much as you can. Buy nothing. Kill the music industry so I can get some sleep!

    1. Re:Please kill the industry -- I hate bass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I'm sure even without the music industry they'd still keep doing it. Amplifiers will just start including built-in synthesizers with random low frequency generation patterns.

  8. LOC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How many libraries of Congress is that per square inch?

  9. good word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    good word, bemoan... i like that.

    keep em coming