Sony Music Testing New Copy Protection

RandyOo writes "According to this Reuters article, Sony Music is about to start testing a new type of 'copy protection' in Germany. It looks like they'll be releasing multi-sessioned discs with normal audio in the first session, and compressed, DRM'ed music files in the second session, as well added 'extras', including access to exclusive online content. The article explains that the disc's audio can still be copied, and there's a hilarious quote at the end by a BMG spokesman: "All copy-protections can be hacked, but if (we) give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer." "

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

WOOT! I rock! woot!

The GNOME translate-o-matic.

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a new gnome article coming up soon, so here is something for the KDE trolls to use.

Ever since Gnome 2.4 was released, I have found more and more gnome zealots who MUST absolutely advocate GNOME at every possible moment. Here is a guide to some of their claims, and what they really mean.

Unlike KDE, Gnome is free
Translation : GPL is freerer than LGPL. LGPL allows corporations like Novell and Sun to have propeitry forks and lock away their changes from the user. Now that Novell has taken over Ximian you can expect Gnome to get put under corpirate lock. With KDE you have the choice, you either PAY UP or pay with your source code.

Nautilus is much better than konqueror.
Wrong, if your using nautilus for anything more than a simple finder clone you can forget it. No split screen, no ioslaves and forget about being able to have a decent file dialog, not to forget that it is as unstable as hell and is STILL slow on >3 Ghz machines.

Gnome is easier to use
Yep, nothing like using gconf-editor to edit all except the most trivial of settings.

Gnome has eye candy
Yes, my pirated Win32 fonts with the patent infringing font renderer. Bit stream vera sans looks like Tahoma put through a shreadder! Of course I still reboot into windows to print using "Comic Sans MS.

Gnome has a new web browser
Yawb! Along with Galeon, mozilla, thunderbird, konqueror, atlantis, lynx, netscape and w3m. Yes I need another browser! Not to mention that its got a religiously offensive name and it dosen't allow bookmark folders. It also crashes like a crazy! Apple chose khtml for a REASON! its stable and light!

Gnome is themeable
Yep, choose from High, low and medium contrast, default, and clean ice. Wan't to change the colour scheme? USE GCONF NOOB, plus if you complain about it we will tell you to fuck off and go back to Windows or KDE.

Gnome has multimedia framework
Its a kludge of esd combined with broken xine libraries. No wonder it crashes all the time and dosen't work on 95% of video files

Gnome allows mac like operation.
x86 compatible 1 button mice are almost impossible to find, and it dosen't copy the whole macbar concept. Not to even mention their auto apply implementation is broken and dangerous! Plus if they did actually come anywhere close to copying the Mac the C&D letters would come flying up their asses.

Gnome is GNU software.
gnu/Yay, gnu/gnome gnu/for gnu/my gnu/debian gnu/linux gnu/500mhz /gnu/celeron gnu/packard gnu/bell gnu/box.

Inspired by the gentoo translate-o-matic.

Re:how can they ever stop it?

[freedommatters]

don't click on that "yahoo" link. it goes to a pre-teen boy site. sick fucker.

Re:how can they ever stop it?

[freedommatters]

niggers? what the fuck has happened to slashdot recently?

Re:how can they ever stop it?

[freedommatters]

just to re-iterate. don't click on it. if you aren't sure, right click on it and view the properties you'll see it is a "clever trick". some people have a funny way of enjoying themselves.

Re:how can they ever stop it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, you are such a prude. Nothing wrong with people being naked.

Recently?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, there have been bigot-trolls on Slashdot for years. This one just hasn't been modded down yet.

Re:Recently?

[freedommatters]

right, ok. i've not used slashdot for a while as i've been really busy, and in my first real post since i start again i get a child porn link and a racist comment. it's just that i've never seen either here before but as you say, probably just because they are usually modded down.

Re:Recently?

[PReDiToR]

Browse at +2 or something. And don't go clicking stuff, it just takes energy that you could be putting to better use coding a faster way to download PROPER pr0n =)

Re:how can they ever stop it?

[freedommatters]

they're children, you sick twat.

No MP3/ogg = No Sale

[WuphonsReach]

At this point, I've ripped all of my CDs to MP3 (maybe ogg later)... I have an MP3 CD player in my car, 2 or 3 portable MP3 players.

So... unless I can rip new music CDs to mp3, I'll not be buying any new music (got lots already).

Re:how can they ever stop it?

[Anonymous Coward]

How is that sick? They're not being molested or harmed. I fail to see how nudity is inherently 'sick' just because they are young.

Re:how can they ever stop it?

[Anonymous Coward]

How do you know that they are? I don't see any causal link between nudity and molestation.

Re:how can they ever stop it?

[Anonymous Coward]

How do you plan to delete my post?