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DRM Technology To Be Added To MP3 Format
Bob Zer Fish writes "Cnet News.com has a leading story saying that the venerable MP3 music format is getting a makeover aimed at blocking unauthorized copying. Thomson and Fraunhofer, the companies that license and own the patents behind the MP3 digital music technology, are in the midst of creating a new digital rights management add-on. Of course, there are current standards, but most are incompatible."
An anonymous reader points to this brief mention as well.
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but anything that makes the RIAA complain a little less is good in my book.
We all knew this was coming. Madonna yelling in the mp3s was never going to be enough!
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Eeeeew, is that a plug of earwax?
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
OK! But we have to walk to dinner. No car...
Not a problem. The dinner, like the lunch, is free.
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Yet again, this will be a waste of valuable resources.
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I can hear all the geeks screaming how ogg is the best thing on the planet. only problem is hardware support is almost nonexistent
Dude, you so don't understand the ogg philosophy.
See, ogg is the true geek music format: it is therefore *expected* not to be widely supported, otherwise it'd be taken over by big bad corporations, taken on by the music industry, and it'd become well-known and geeks couldn't go about preaching the good word on how good it is to the ordinary pleb.
Anyway, no need for ogg players, true geeks listen to Metallica just by reading the hex printout of the ogg files, printed with mpage -16.
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New MP3 DRM technology cracked; DMCA invoked in lawsuit...
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Try the new MpDRM! Now loaded with 50% more crap, 100% more agony, and 500% more incompatability than the equally obscure mp4. MpDRM! Because less really is more, if you live at the RIAA.
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You, sir, are a hypocrite. That's right: A hypocrite. I won't say much about your comment (except it was insightful and I think the online music business is going to eat this stuff up!) but I do have something to say about your signature.
That's right, your signature. You know, the one that reads: End acronym abuse today! The one that linked to your rant against the overuse of acronyms. The signature at the END of a very short post that still somehow managed to be riddled with words like "DRM" "MP3s" "WMA" and "AAC". Just struck me as ironic, I guess...
I would have to say that explosives are the most abused technology in all of history.
That's why it's called DRM. So they can 'manage' your rights.
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what new cpu ? my 486 plays mp3's nicely thank you very much.
Hi my name is clippy, I see your playing non-DRM MP3s would you like me DRM enable them?
My wife and I own 2 MP3 players (Sony and RCA respectively) and I've converted every bit of music in the house to MP3s, from vinyl and 7" reels onward. I'll go thru all that again - to say nothing of throwing away almost $600.00 worth of electronics that work perfectly - the day hell not only freezes over but hosts the winter olympics. If the RIAA doesn't like that, they can kiss my hairy &%$.
That, and because Ogg Vorbis is the worst fucking name of all time.
I have yet to see any evidence of this.
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That might explain why ogg files are so much thinner than MP3 files. They get more exercise.
Welcome to the hall of corporate shame Mr Thomson and Mr Fraunhofer! Help yourself to the complimentary Crystal Pepsi and New Coke. In a few minutes, a waiter will swing by of a Segway with some Doritos 3D's and we'll start off the welcoming ceremony by awarding you metals made from recycled metric highway signs from the 70s. and top it off with a back to back showing of Gigli, Kangaroo Jack, and Glitter.
See sig.
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With a name like "Ogg Vorbis", it's got to be good...
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Can they really change the source of cp, cat, more and every other program out there that reads files to check for drm?
/home/otheruser/ /home/otheruser/cool_muzak.mp3
bash$ cp cool_muzak.mp3
cp: DRM Error: The RIAA is out to get you.
cp: DRM Error: Your IP has been sent to the RIAA.
bash$ cat cool_muzak.mp3 >
cat: DRM Error: They is still out to get you. Mua ha ha.
cat: DRM Error: Big brother is watching...
It seems impossible to make every player and old install file support the DRM in the new and improved DRMed files
Well at any rate, I'm going off to install debian stable. I'll be safe from this new technology for a few more years.
Reminds me of my wife's friend, who teaches modern dance and gets to deduct as business expense the music she buys for her classes. Her husband, an up-tight tax attorney, flees the room whenever she plays her music, lest by hearing it he might "taint" the purity of her business deduction. Go figure. . .
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Captain: What happen?
Mechanic: Someone set up us the update
Operator: We get DRM signal
Captain: What!
Operator: WMP turn on.
Captain: It's you!!
RIAA: How are you gentlemen!!
RIAA: All your MP3 are belong to us
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* The freedom to eat the food, for any purpose (freedom 0).
* The freedom to study how the food works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the ingredients are a precondition for this.
* The freedom to distribute the food so you can feed your neighbor (freedom 2).
* The freedom to improve the food, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole dinner party benefits (freedom 3). Access to the recipe is a precondition for this.
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Back to the crack pipe, buddy. VORBIS is easier to pronounce than MP3? That's a crock of donkey dookey dude. VOR-BIS is an obnoxious, rounded word that takes effort. M-P-3 couldn't roll off the tongue any easier. VOR-BIS is like the sound the tubgirl makes when she unloads her unholy payload.
You typo of Media Payer gave me an idea. In the spirit of M$, may I coin "MediaP(l)ayer"?
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Ahh, I thought so.
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