Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims

An anonymous reader notes that the Beastie Boys have responded to claims that their new album is DRM-crippled; their response is that the US and UK versions aren't crippled, and the DRM software is only installed in RAM, not on disk. See our previous story for background.

Comments

Duh?

[tigersaw]

Phase 1: Hold Shift Key Phase 2: ??? Phase 3: Profit!!

Vaporware on a Music CD?

[davidmandle]

This Macrovision technology does NOT install spyware or vaporware of any kind on a users PC

Vaporware? Something tells me the guy who wrote doesn't know what he's talking about.

mirror?

[dan_sdot]

Hey, does anyone have a mirror or can anyone copy/paste the news?
We slashdotted the Beastie Boys!! Thats awsome.
"You gotta fight...
for your right....
for bandwidth!!!"

Heh-heh-heh.

[beej_55]

Beastie Boys got Slashdotted. Serves em' right for trying to DRM their CD's. I don't care if it's in the US, UK, or Uguanda, IT'S STILL DRM! You can't put a price on music, music is free! Go down to some African country and see the peeps gathered around beating on drums and shite, the record companies won't get away with charging 18.99 for a CD much longer, I can tell you that...

Vaporware

[Booyakka Joe]

"This Macrovision technology does NOT install spyware or vaporware of any kind"

Damn, I was hoping this Macrovison copy protection installed Duke Nukem Fornever.

to the V boroughs -? cdparanoia and lame

[i621148]

i bought this cd today from borders book store.
as i don't want to listen to it except on my zaurus when running, i put it in grip.

grip began it's magic. however, it did not work.
i successfully used grip to rip the gnr contraband cd last week. so i just figured since the beastie boys were more psuedo-intellectual than gnr :) they had hired a better drm programmer...

i then put it back in and tried:
mount /mnt/dvd
xine played the video just fine.

i then executed the following:
mkdir2004-to_the_5_boroughs
cd 2004-to_the_5_boroughs
cdparanoia -v -B
this produced a file full of perfect wavs
i then went through the sucky process of renaming
all the wavs and then did a
ls -l >> doit
i edited doit with gedit and created the following script:

#!/bin/bash
lame -h -b 192 01-check_it_out.wav 01-check_it_out.mp3
lame -h -b 192 02-right_right_now_now.wav 02-right_right_now_now.mp3
lame -h -b 192 03-3_the_hard_way.wav 03-3_the_hard_way.mp3
lame -h -b 192 04-time_to_build.wav 04-time_to_build.mp3
lame -h -b 192 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.wav 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.mp3
lame -h -b 192 06-triple_trouble.wav 06-triple_trouble.mp3
lame -h -b 192 07-hey_fuck_you.wav 07-hey_fuck_you.mp3
lame -h -b 192 08-oh_word.wav 08-oh_word.mp3
lame -h -b 192 09-thats_it_thats_all.wav 09-thats_it_thats_all.mp3
lame -h -b 192 10-all_lifestyles.wav 10-all_lifestyles.mp3
lame -h -b 192 11-shazam.wav 11-shazam.mp3
lame -h -b 192 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.wav 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.mp3
lame -h -b 192 13-crawlspace.wav 13-crawlspace.mp3
lame -h -b 192 14-the_brouhhaha.wav 14-the_brouhhaha.mp3
lame -h -b 192 15-we_got_the.wav 15-we_got_the.mp3

after saving, i used chmod 755 doit and ran ./doit

hooray >=)

2004-to_the_5_boroughs -doit

[i621148]

i bought this cd today from borders book store. as i don't want to listen to it except on my zaurus when running, i put it in grip. grip began it's magic. however, it did not work. i successfully used grip to rip the gnr contraband cd last week. so i just figured since the beastie boys were more psuedo-intellectual than gnr :) they had hired a better drm programmer... i then put it back in and tried: mount /mnt/dvd xine played the video just fine. i then executed the following: mkdir 2004-to_the_5_boroughs cd 2004-to_the_5_boroughs cdparanoia -v -B this produced a file full of perfect wavs i then went through the sucky process of renaming all the wavs and then did a ls -l >> doit i edited doit with gedit and created the following script: #!/bin/bash lame -h -b 192 01-check_it_out.wav 01-check_it_out.mp3 lame -h -b 192 02-right_right_now_now.wav 02-right_right_now_now.mp3 lame -h -b 192 03-3_the_hard_way.wav 03-3_the_hard_way.mp3 lame -h -b 192 04-time_to_build.wav 04-time_to_build.mp3 lame -h -b 192 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.wav 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.mp3 lame -h -b 192 06-triple_trouble.wav 06-triple_trouble.mp3 lame -h -b 192 07-hey_fuck_you.wav 07-hey_fuck_you.mp3 lame -h -b 192 08-oh_word.wav 08-oh_word.mp3 lame -h -b 192 09-thats_it_thats_all.wav 09-thats_it_thats_all.mp3 lame -h -b 192 10-all_lifestyles.wav 10-all_lifestyles.mp3 lame -h -b 192 11-shazam.wav 11-shazam.mp3 lame -h -b 192 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.wav 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.mp3 lame -h -b 192 13-crawlspace.wav 13-crawlspace.mp3 lame -h -b 192 14-the_brouhhaha.wav 14-the_brouhhaha.mp3 lame -h -b 192 15-we_got_the.wav 15-we_got_the.mp3 after saving, i used chmod 755 doit and ran ./doit hooray >=) so i guess what the cd accomplished is that i had to rename all the wav files instead of connecting to the freedb.freedb.org database

2004-to_the_5_boroughs -doit

[i621148]

i bought this cd today from borders book store in kansas city (usa). as i don't want to listen to it except on my zaurus when running, i put it in grip. grip began it's magic. however, it did not work. i successfully used grip to rip the gnr contraband cd last week. so i just figured since the beastie boys were more psuedo-intellectual than gnr :) they had hired a better drm programmer... i then put it back in and tried: mount /mnt/dvd xine played the video just fine. i then executed the following: mkdir 2004-to_the_5_boroughs cd 2004-to_the_5_boroughs cdparanoia -v -B this produced a file full of perfect wavs i then went through the sucky process of renaming all the wavs and then did a ls -l >> doit i edited doit with gedit and created the following script: #!/bin/bash lame -h -b 192 01-check_it_out.wav 01-check_it_out.mp3 lame -h -b 192 02-right_right_now_now.wav 02-right_right_now_now.mp3 lame -h -b 192 03-3_the_hard_way.wav 03-3_the_hard_way.mp3 lame -h -b 192 04-time_to_build.wav 04-time_to_build.mp3 lame -h -b 192 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.wav 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.mp3 lame -h -b 192 06-triple_trouble.wav 06-triple_trouble.mp3 lame -h -b 192 07-hey_fuck_you.wav 07-hey_fuck_you.mp3 lame -h -b 192 08-oh_word.wav 08-oh_word.mp3 lame -h -b 192 09-thats_it_thats_all.wav 09-thats_it_thats_all.mp3 lame -h -b 192 10-all_lifestyles.wav 10-all_lifestyles.mp3 lame -h -b 192 11-shazam.wav 11-shazam.mp3 lame -h -b 192 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.wav 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.mp3 lame -h -b 192 13-crawlspace.wav 13-crawlspace.mp3 lame -h -b 192 14-the_brouhhaha.wav 14-the_brouhhaha.mp3 lame -h -b 192 15-we_got_the.wav 15-we_got_the.mp3 after saving, i used chmod 755 doit and ran ./doit hooray >=) so i guess what the cd accomplished is that i had to rename all the wav files instead of connecting to the freedb.freedb.org database

I can't believe

[geekoid]

not 1 person mentioned that they said vaporware...