It's a simple case, the industry (entertainment industry, covers RIAA and MPAA) wants money, they found out that most of the american public buys into thier shit and will do what they say. Downloading MP3's is communism...ok Mr. RIAA, I won't download them anymore.
The fact is everything in this day in age is so fucking pre-processed it's not even funny. American Cheese lives up to it's name, it's fake and processed like America. It's all about image. Britney (Titney) Spears sells more CD's than 4 guys that know how to play music. Backstreet (Backdoor) Boys sell more cd's than a bunch of guys that are a real bad. It's all shit. The last CD I bought was the White Stripes because it had a decent sound and was like $7 at Circuit City (suck that RIAA, some albums aren't under YOUR control and price inflation). They've discovered they can put out pure shit, charge 20 bucks, and as long as the group "looks" good, it'll sell. Im sorry, I won't buy it. The bullshit in the media industry has to stop, we need to get more REAL bands and less cookie-cutter shit. I'm a "small" webcaster, I've sunk quite a bit of money on my stream, do I make any profit off it? no. there are no advertisements or anything on my website, it's pure fun and done for my love of broadcasting. I do have some RIAA controlled stuff, there's a lot of it, I also have some non-riaa stuff. and this can extend into movies as well, let's not get started on movies released by major movie studios......
those are my views, CD sales didn't slip till the RIAA started bitching and raised prices, now they want to say some 56K stream is hurting them, get your ears out of your ass.
my friend in Ok. has wireless access from his friend's uncle's ISP, he has a max speed of 2mb/s up and down...although he only get's about 1.5 both ways.
His latency is almost nil...getting 7ms to the towers..and and avg of 55ms to yahoo (that's right now) - so ping isn't real too bad, although I get 24ms to Yahoo on my Verizon DSL account. His avg ping to me is 88ms and vise verca is 79....but...there are a lot of factors with his, such as I'm running the pings on his Sparc...which could slow things down..I'll see if he can't run them from his NAT machine.
But, as I was saying..I host a website off it, an internet radio station too: http://madc0w.shacknet.nu
I think what they forget to mention is how much MP3's and Napster have auctually hurt sales, they haven't. My friend who works at Sam Goody says he gets more people in the store who heard the music online from Napster or the like, then buy the CD. The record industry says they lost money because they lowered the price of CD's by like, a dollar and they had less profit than compared to last year.
Ok, this copy protection stuff has been talked about for a while, and I can tell you, it's here weather we like it or not.
Why do I say this? Because, every law is on the record companies side aganist piracy, the only thing that might go against the DMCA is the Home Recording Act which was implemented in 1992 when the MiniDisc came out. It clearly states what's fair use, and many laws allow making backup copies and some even go as far as to say copy protection is illegal.
But, are these CD's totally uncopyable? No. As many have pointed out programs like CloneDisc and Nero are capeable of making 1:1 copies of audio CD's if your hardware supports it. So, you make a perfect 1:1 copy of a copy protected CD, theoritcally, it should play fine. The biggest problem is ripping to (crappy) formats like MP3 or (even worse) OGG. (I'm a MpegPlus man myself).
The CDFS.VXD ripping program uses burst mode copying, and therefore doesn't auctually use any error correction, but, it can recover from errors better than using say, EAC's Secure mode.
My G.F. bought the new Michael Jackson CD and brought it over to my house saying it wouldn't play in her car or her DVD player. So, I popped it in my Apex AD-3201 and nothing, it wouldn't play it. It showed up as an audio CD, but both the analog and digital outputs lost sync. Popped it in my Sharp player, and it played fine, my MD deck even recorded from it (as most CD player's digital out's aren't RAW data, they're error corrected PCM). So, after some reading I found it was copy protected. I put it in my drive, and tried to rip it, alas, nothing. I then switched EAC over to burst (XP Pro doesn't support CDFS.XVD to my knowledge) and granted it ripped at 3.4x, it ripped (my DVD drive usually gets about 8x)
They say the protection won't affect audio quality as much, bull. If you have good ears, you can tell the audio lacks a certin oomph (same oomph missing on CD that's on Vinyl, it's not really noticeable, but, it's there) Also, let's not forget HDCD, HDCD is dependant on a good audio stream, if they corrupt part of it, theorically, AFAIK, HDCD won't function.
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It's a simple case, the industry (entertainment industry, covers RIAA and MPAA) wants money, they found out that most of the american public buys into thier shit and will do what they say. Downloading MP3's is communism...ok Mr. RIAA, I won't download them anymore.
The fact is everything in this day in age is so fucking pre-processed it's not even funny. American Cheese lives up to it's name, it's fake and processed like America. It's all about image. Britney (Titney) Spears sells more CD's than 4 guys that know how to play music. Backstreet (Backdoor) Boys sell more cd's than a bunch of guys that are a real bad. It's all shit. The last CD I bought was the White Stripes because it had a decent sound and was like $7 at Circuit City (suck that RIAA, some albums aren't under YOUR control and price inflation). They've discovered they can put out pure shit, charge 20 bucks, and as long as the group "looks" good, it'll sell. Im sorry, I won't buy it. The bullshit in the media industry has to stop, we need to get more REAL bands and less cookie-cutter shit. I'm a "small" webcaster, I've sunk quite a bit of money on my stream, do I make any profit off it? no. there are no advertisements or anything on my website, it's pure fun and done for my love of broadcasting. I do have some RIAA controlled stuff, there's a lot of it, I also have some non-riaa stuff. and this can extend into movies as well, let's not get started on movies released by major movie studios......
those are my views, CD sales didn't slip till the RIAA started bitching and raised prices, now they want to say some 56K stream is hurting them, get your ears out of your ass.
my friend in Ok. has wireless access from his friend's uncle's ISP, he has a max speed of 2mb/s up and down...although he only get's about 1.5 both ways. His latency is almost nil...getting 7ms to the towers..and and avg of 55ms to yahoo (that's right now) - so ping isn't real too bad, although I get 24ms to Yahoo on my Verizon DSL account. His avg ping to me is 88ms and vise verca is 79....but...there are a lot of factors with his, such as I'm running the pings on his Sparc...which could slow things down..I'll see if he can't run them from his NAT machine. But, as I was saying..I host a website off it, an internet radio station too: http://madc0w.shacknet.nu
I tried to get a job at that plant....they hardly hire any entry-level techs and stuff.
Yeah, I live near it...only about 5 or 6 miles...10 miles to the new AOL building....my god..Manassas is turning into Herndon/Stearling/Reston, VA
But, about RAM prices....haven't they been up lately because of christmas? I don't follow this as much as some people, I'm not that much of a nerd.
I think what they forget to mention is how much MP3's and Napster have auctually hurt sales, they haven't. My friend who works at Sam Goody says he gets more people in the store who heard the music online from Napster or the like, then buy the CD. The record industry says they lost money because they lowered the price of CD's by like, a dollar and they had less profit than compared to last year.
Ok, this copy protection stuff has been talked about for a while, and I can tell you, it's here weather we like it or not. Why do I say this? Because, every law is on the record companies side aganist piracy, the only thing that might go against the DMCA is the Home Recording Act which was implemented in 1992 when the MiniDisc came out. It clearly states what's fair use, and many laws allow making backup copies and some even go as far as to say copy protection is illegal. But, are these CD's totally uncopyable? No. As many have pointed out programs like CloneDisc and Nero are capeable of making 1:1 copies of audio CD's if your hardware supports it. So, you make a perfect 1:1 copy of a copy protected CD, theoritcally, it should play fine. The biggest problem is ripping to (crappy) formats like MP3 or (even worse) OGG. (I'm a MpegPlus man myself). The CDFS.VXD ripping program uses burst mode copying, and therefore doesn't auctually use any error correction, but, it can recover from errors better than using say, EAC's Secure mode. My G.F. bought the new Michael Jackson CD and brought it over to my house saying it wouldn't play in her car or her DVD player. So, I popped it in my Apex AD-3201 and nothing, it wouldn't play it. It showed up as an audio CD, but both the analog and digital outputs lost sync. Popped it in my Sharp player, and it played fine, my MD deck even recorded from it (as most CD player's digital out's aren't RAW data, they're error corrected PCM). So, after some reading I found it was copy protected. I put it in my drive, and tried to rip it, alas, nothing. I then switched EAC over to burst (XP Pro doesn't support CDFS.XVD to my knowledge) and granted it ripped at 3.4x, it ripped (my DVD drive usually gets about 8x) They say the protection won't affect audio quality as much, bull. If you have good ears, you can tell the audio lacks a certin oomph (same oomph missing on CD that's on Vinyl, it's not really noticeable, but, it's there) Also, let's not forget HDCD, HDCD is dependant on a good audio stream, if they corrupt part of it, theorically, AFAIK, HDCD won't function.