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Recording Industry Hoist By Their Own Petard

Posted by timothy on from the too-many-laws dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As reported by MSNBC, the recording industry has been unable to offer combination DVD / CD discs to consumers because of the IP ownership questions as well as licensing issues between CD and DVD content. All I can say is it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch!"

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  1. Re:tech issues by PabloJones · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they put the CD information on one layer, readable by the CD laser, and then the DVD stuff on another.

  2. There is a God. by sentientbeing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nuff said.

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  3. I love their webpage by pHatidic · · Score: 5, Funny
    To sum up their website

    24Kb two color JPEG: Loading Soon

    1. Re:I love their webpage by robochan · · Score: 2, Funny

      And to top it off, the black background on the image doesn't even match the black background on the page.
      And they're going to be combining multimedia formats? ;o)

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    2. Re:I love their webpage by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny
      That's strange. When I went there http://www.dualdisc.com/perl/lib/persist.pl I got this instead:
      Perl Cartridge Error: Search pattern not terminated at (eval 3) line 85.
      Guess they're still using that ole 8-track perl cartridge, instead of moving to the newer CD/DVD/MP3/DivX technology 'cause they couldn't get a closed-source licensing agreement :-)
  4. *chuckles wickedly* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed, indeed. This is, as we say at the trekkie conventions, "being hosed by your own picard"

    Sweet, sweet ineed.

  5. Re:uhm, what purpose does the RIAA serve again? by LiMikeTnux · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Well, as soon as dualdisc burners are available, I have a feeling that I will be manufacturing my own DVD/CD combinations, with no help from the DRM^H^H^HRecording Industry."

    i think that should be "Recording^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HDRM Industry"

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  6. And thus spaketh the geeks by davmoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    As ye shall sow, so shall ye reap.

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  7. Re:tech issues by M.+Silver · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe this is very uninformed but it seems to me most players, except some slot-loading ones, could accomodate a 1mm thicker disc without problems at all.

    I'll add anecdotal evidence to this. Confusing as heck to pull a disc off a spindle, put it in, and have some other disc start playing, open the drive, confirm it's the disc you thought it was, spend a few moments wondering who's playing a joke on you and how, and then realize that it's two discs with static cling.

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  8. Is it just me?... by KermitJunior · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I the only one that read this "Recording Industry Hoist By their Own Retard?"

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  9. I really like this headline by petard · · Score: 5, Funny

    and am, sadly, absolutely not the AC who submitted it :-)

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  10. Honestly, a solution to their problem! by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Issue two discs. One a standard CD, and the other a DVD. It costs them like what, 50 cents to burn a CD? Maybe $2 to burn a DVD? It will cost them more in R&D and legal fees to get a dual-format disk.

    Using the Wisdom of Solomon, this problem is solved! Split it in two, and have two disks!

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  11. Re:Buy the music vid DVD and get the CD for it fre by huchida · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is Weird Al really the best example you could come up with?

    Just askin'.