RIAA About to Transform?

It has been reported for a while that the RIAA was suffering some cutbacks and dwindling support, but techdirt is reporting that the cuts may be even deeper than most originally suspected. Who knew suing potential customers would ruin your business? "I'm sure some will somehow 'blame piracy' for this turn of events, but it's hard to see how that's even remotely the issue. The real issue is that the RIAA has basically managed to run one of the dumbest, most self-defeating strategies over the last decade. Rather than helping major record labels adjust to the changing market, it continually, repeatedly and publicly destroyed its own reputation and the reputation of the labels — each time shrinking their potential market by blaming the very people they should have been working to turn into customers."

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Nothing but a rumor, yet...

[Endo13]

Chasing down the links leads to this:

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/02/is-the-.html

But one seemingly knowledgeable but unconfirmed source tells Hypebot that the cuts run much deeper than previously reported.

And not much else. One can hope, but so far this is nothing but a rumor.

Re:Nothing but a rumor, yet...

[Frosty Piss]

...nothing but a rumor.

Synonym for fact here at Slashdot.

Re:give it a fucking break

[Chabo]

Nope. Blu-CD is compatible with regular CD players, and still plays back at 16-bit, 44.1kHz. The theoretical quality of the output audio is exactly the same. The only difference is that the physical process of making the CD will be more precise, so playing a Blu-CD back in realtime on a regular CD player will, Sony hopes, give better measured output quality.

However, if you rip a Blu-CD and a regular CD to a computer using cdparanoia or Exact Audio Copy, you'll get exactly the same files.

In short, if you rip your CDs, Blu-CD will give you no benefit. If you play your CDs on a home-theater system, however, if Sony implements the technology correctly you'll get fewer playback errors.