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Super MP3 Will Feature User Tracking
An anonymous reader writes "Next generation super MP3 files will support four-channel audio tracks and contain what's dubbed Light Weight Digital Rights Management (LWDRM) code to track it's owner via p2p programs." We've mentioned these multi-channel, DRM-ified MP3s before.
Somebody please write conversion software so I can batch-convert all my MP3s to this new and exciting format which will offer me as a consumer many exciting new capabilities!
Man, I'd better start saving up for a new Super MP3 player...
I hope this will be as sucessful as MP3PRo.
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Just give Jon (from DeCSS fame) a few weeks. That guy is the ultimate masochist, and we love him for it :)
Windows Longhorn :-)
I think they needed a way to say "This song is copyrighted. The RIAA is coming to get you" without corrupting the quality of the MP3 music itself (artists would get upset).
That way all RIAA approved players that support the limited DRM only plays the last two tracks while WinAmp plays them all.
Just think, RIAA in my rear channels with Metallica in the front. Woo hoo!
Or, they'll set all DRM info to indicate that the original ripper and "pirate" of each track was Jack Valenti!!! :)
You are not the customer.
Let's see, what to do with 255 tracks... 27 channel surround, the corners, edge midpoints and face midpoints of a cube around the listener, including one inside the listener for those subliminal message effects. Plus a ".1" sub channel at each of those points. And heck, a tweeter channel at each of those points as well. And... umm, every single instrument in the mix gets a separate channel so you can Mix-It-Yourself (tm).
That's strange, I didn't know it also had a channel that sounded like it was coming from the upstairs neighbors...
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Bytes 16-512 contain the http address of the source file.
Now I'm going to be sued by the RIAA for breaking the DMCA
No way, all those people with four-ear headphones will love this stuff.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Just wait for some senator or attorney general to either 1) Use it for extending the gov.'s powers or 2) Be paid by Microsoft to create FUD in congress about how vulnerable we are without it...
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My favorite musician is retired. I bought and ripped to MP3 all of his existing albums already.
But hey, at least we'll be able to find out who has been distributing Jessica Simpson and Backdoor Boys MP3s and beat the hell out of them.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
"Hi I'm Troy McLure and this is LightWeight DRM: Content delivered your way. You may remember me from such brand resuscitation films as How Asbestos saves YOUR CHILDREN from burning to death or Firestone Tires: Now with 33% less explosive power"
...but this seems like a perverted 1984-vision. Whats next, death penalty for P2P sharing ?
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I am sure it will take less than a week, err make that hour, to figure out how to spoof it. Another 2 days for some GUI guid spoofer tool to be published. Probably 5 days to figure out the guid of some famous person who uses this stuff. 10 days before everyone is just hacking the guid flag to make it look like it came from said famous person. 3 weeks for slashdot to pic up the story :P
Longhorn will run unsigned software.
You're right. As has been pointed out by others I should have said that it stops you from running anything but correctly signed code on the Super-MP3 files.
Otherwise, it would be totally useless.
You've used microsoft's products before, right?
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