Unfortunately this hack doesn't remove the watermarking, so you can't make a copy to a DVD-+R disc. Is there any possibility to make a player that doesn't adhere to all the draconian measures included just to restrict how the content is used like watermarking, like there are DVD-video players that don't care about regions, Macrovision and prohibited user options (skipping commercials..)?
Quote from Ars Technica:
"The only caveat is that DVD-Audio's Verance digital watermarking, embedded in the audio signal itself, cannot be removed. The Verance watermark contains seventy-two bits of data comprising four CCI (copy control information) bits and eight usage identifier bits every fifteen seconds plus sixty content identifier bits every thirty seconds - if a DVD-Audio player detects that an embedded watermark does not match that of a specific disc (in other words if ripped DVD-Audio content is burnt to a blank DVD-R disc using an authoring program such as DiscWelder BRONZE), the machine will halt playback after thirty seconds."
Circumventing copyright protection schemes is absolutely NOT illegal in Finland - at least yet. This is one of the few benefits from paying Teosto huge levies on every media.
Finland has ratified the EUCD directive but not merged it's own regulations to support it so for the time being you can crack, hack and reverse-engineer as much as you like.
Copyright infringement was, is, and will be illegal - the EUCD just makes circumventing any protection illegal too (even if you legally own the software/movie/music/other digital content.). No idea how it would affect Teosto levies, from what I've heard it's one of the main reasons the EUCD isn't merget yet (the original date for merging was 2002/12).
One thing I *really* would like to know..
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..is that WHY, oh why do these sites keep logs like this about their users? Basic anonymous statistics and logging of unusual activities like port scans are fine for me, but why did they log up/downloads that they knew to be illegal in many (most?) countries?
What really bothers me is that even when they knew that the MPAA was coming to them and they started raising money to defend themselves why didn't they securely delete all the logs they had? Smells like a plea bargain or even something more rotten to me.. I hope I'm just too paranoid.
This wasn't the first time though, remember how Suprnova's logs were turned to MPAA too.
Also remember how Sharereactor also wanted donations and after raising $15k+ (and considerable ad revenue) it's owner simply vanished, the site was still shut down and nobody has heard from their donations since.
The only reasonable explanation that I've heard is that it's simply illegal to host a site without any logging in some countries. Similar sites in Sweden and Switzerland at least claim to have no logging whatsoever. Anyone know where Lokitorrent was physically hosted?
Certainly not with SCSI but maybe with SATA+PCIe? Let's do some calculations!
The raw data rate is 4Gbps/8=500MB/s. A single PCIe channel is 250MB/s so we need at least two, not counting any overhead. Very, very few and expensive cards support more than 4 HDDs/card so it's cheaper to get three cards.
Fastest hard drives can barely sustain 50MB/s writes (remember to check the rate for the entire platter, not just the fastest part!) so we need at least 10 HDDs, not counting any overhead.
A 10x73GB SCSI array could hold only 24,3 minutes of programs, maybe a single episode with the commercials cut off in real-time?
A 10x500GB SATA array could hold 2 hours and 46 minutes of data, enough for most movies. There is absolutely no redundancy so pray every night that no single drive fails or your movie is gone.
Would you buy three PCIe RAID controllers and ten 500GB drives, a new PSU & server case just to record A SINGLE MOVIE?
As for sharing with your friends it's just ~10TB/movie..
The only solution is to use realtime MPEG2/4 compressor, there ARE some (very impressive looking, I might add!) HDTV rips floating around, for instance Terminator 3 is about 8300MB compressed as MPEG2 in 1280x720.
But what happens when your capture card refuses to save the data due to flags/watermarks/the evil bit? Clearly just saving the raw stream is not feasible so better get that capture card now at least if you live in the US. Thank goddess we don't have a Federal Censorship Committee (yet).
I'm sorry for ranting a bit, the very idea that my own hardware doesn't follow my simple orders like "record" but obeys someone elses wishes is downright disgusting. Well, at least I can modify the hardware I bought so they don't obey the overlord's.....wait, someone's at the door
Not a small part. It's about 40% of the retail price.
Teosto also collects over 1 euro for every DVD-+R(W) disc. As a result a pack of 50 no-brand discs costs 129 euros here versus 25 euros when ordered from Estonia INCLUDING shipping. However, importing CDs and DVDs without paying the levies is illegal and carries insane penalties (fines over 20 euros for a single disc and even jail time).
And no, you can't legally download or copy CDs nor DVDs even though you have to pay the levies - there's absolutely NO way for a non-corporation to avoid paying the levy other than ordering from abroad, but like I said before that's illegal.
The reason for this insanity is partly the fact that the majority of Finns continue to vote for the same celebrities year after year, even after they raised their own already mind-boggling salaries by 60% and lowered their retirement age to 45 years while the country was suffering from record-high unemployment and new lay-offs were announced every week.
As my personal opinion I think only those with higher education should be allowed to vote and all goverment officials should not be paid more than the average salary.
Currently it's impossible to do 1:1 copies of StarForce3 and SafeDisc5 protected CDs since all CD-R and CD-RW discs have a groove already pressed at the factory that the writing laser follows.
Both copy protections work by using a variable groove on pressed CDs that CD-RW drives can't physically reproduce, just like it's impossible to make a 1:1 copy of ANY CSS protected DVD with a computer DVD+-RW drive since all DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) discs are crippled from the factory!
Of course, the serious pirates just press their copies just like original CDs/DVDs, so it's just us customers that get screwed.
I recently got a used network laser printer for $200, it has both PCL5 and PS and since it's my first laser would somebody be kind enough to explain which mode should I use?
Are there any differences in print quality and/or speed, resource usage or something else I should know about? In case it matters the printer has 64MB of memory, a 4MB flash card (for firmware upgrades??) and no hard disk.
The PCL5 driver reports the printer as 24ppm, max 1200dpi and PS driver as 16ppm, max 1200dpi - is PCL really 50% faster or is this just a driver quirk?
I would test it myself but the toner refill won't arrive untill next Tuesday.
Thanks in advance to anyone who helps a laser newbie!
Since Creative owns a vast patent portfolio it has acquired from Aureal and Sensaura it can effectively dictate the (near) future of 3D PC audio.
Since they have all the patented wave-tracing algorithms Aureal used there won't be any third-party solutions and that means no competition for at least the near future and that means more profit for the shareholders - can't blame them for that.
I owned a MX300 and it was far superior to SB Live!, my personal opinion is that the last good card Creative made was the SB32, the SB64 was a SB32 with a software synth for the extra 32 voices and a proprietary memory expansion slot instead of standard SIMM slots (I recall 2MB upgrade costing $55).
Any comments on the new Audigy cards? I had enough with the SB PCI series (SB512 anyone?) and switched to Terratec's cards (no SCMS on digital outputs/inputs!) and haven't looked back since.
Good 7.1 sound and the money I saved went towards a GF6800 GT.
First, set the following system variables: DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 DEVM GR_SHOW_DETAILS=1
Then go to Device Manager and choose View->Show Hidden Devices and then double-click "Non-Plug and Play Drivers".
There you can see them all, like secdrv (SecuROM). They can be easily uninstalled there but after that uncracked games might not work.
By the way, these copy protection drivers are the reason some games work only on Windows 2000 or better, Win9x can't use.sys drivers! (cracked version of Doom 3 works fine on Win9x for instance).
"We at PestPatrol do not find significant substance to the Internet rumors to continue our detection and removal of C-Dilla. So PestPatrol does NOT detect C-Dilla. This page is posted for your information only"
>The fact that you can play the file at all means that you *must* already be in possession of the decryption key.
Well, it means that your "trusted" DRM-player knows the second part of the keypair - not "untrusted" human beings like you and me.
I completely agree that absolutely robust DRM is an impossible task, however ripping keys inside custom chips will take years and huge resources ($5M+) even from professional copyright infringers and even after that the actual algorith will be still unknown (and you can't sniff it since all traffic until the D/A stage is encrypted).
SACD has been in the market from 1999, five years and still not a single method to rip the digital data out of the disc and DVD-A's DRM is even stronger on the paper.
This is not something that Norwegian teenagers can crack - but I truely hope that I will be proved wrong or I simply won't ever purchase any SACD of DVD-A titles.
You clearly misunderstood my post or you talked right out of your arse.
Recording two channels is not enough - we need 6-channel recording to copy an analog 5.1 audio track.
You COULD do this with a consumer sound card but it would take three passes and would require laborous post-processing to sync the three recordings back to a 5.1 track.
Also, if the keys are inside custom chips they won't be extracted without some serious equipment including a couple of scanning electron microscopes AND a complete blueprint of the chip insides that you simply won't get anywhere.
If cracking DVD-A is as easy as DVD-V, where are all the rippers? Where is even the most basic information about the keys, even the most basic information how the data is decrypted and moved around?
DVD-V's weakness was storing some of the keys outside hardware, that made DeCSS possible. Also, the bus could be sniffed and the keys were always stored at the same place on the disc.
All these shortcomings have been corrected with DVD-A, so my bleak prediction is that ripping the full fidelity tracks won't happen within the next five years. (note that DVD-A also checks the physical parameters of the disc so like with crippled DVD-R discs you can't physically make a 1:1 copy)
Re:What are the copy protections in DVD-A and SACD
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Do you have any links?
The encryption on DVD-A is much "improved" (for the content holders) and they really took lessions from DVD-video.
All the internal communications are encrypted so no sniffing of the (de)compressed audio in it's digital form.
Currently no-one even seems to know where exactly the keypair is stored, when the player authenticates it seems to read what seems random parts of the disc and possibly create a hash of some kind.
As all buses are encrypted it's all just quessing..
The analog hole still remains but very few soundcards (AFAIK no consumer sound card has this ability) offer multichannel *recording* - you need to hook up all 6 channels to your sound card and re-digitize the sound and keep all channels in perfect sync to make a decent analog copy.
On Creative sound cards even 2-channel recording is impossible - my Audigy 2 card simply refuses to record analog audio from a DVD-A player so even the analog data is watermarked.
I really wonder what this watermarking does with the sound quality, not any good that's for sure..
..don't cause any wear and are on he same price range as other quality turntables.
I also don't have any dust on my LPs, CDs, not even inside my computers so maybe you should just hover more often..?;)
Also, even on needle turntables dust isn't a problem in any recent equipment and unlike CDs you don't have to worry about 0.2mm deep scratches on the topside.
What are the copy protections in DVD-A and SACD?
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I know that DVD-A is encrypted with a new, strong encryption and that no rippers exist and according to hydrogenaudio.org probably will not exist untill home quantum computers..
Does anyone know more details? I know for sure that my player only outputs downsampled content on both optical and coax. Files can be copied with any DVD-ROM drive but the files are useless.
Also, what is the situation with SACDs? No rippers seems to exist either, so it's also encrypted and downsampled for digital outputs? What is the filesystem used and how is legacy CD-support achieved?
Information can be transmitted faster than light if the carrier medium has negative mass.
You MUST however first agree how to interpret the data by something that travels at c (radio) or slower (carrier pigeons).
Note that this would NOT go backwards in time unlike an object with a positive mass traveling past c, it would just go faster than a light pulse sent at the same time! No negative ping times for Half-life XVII..
Too bad that this would be very difficult to do while on Earth since you would need a vacuum between the endpoints, not to mention the difficulties of getting the required negative energy at the first place (terawatt lasers anyone?).
Note for knee-jerk reactions: relativity predicts that nothing with a POSITIVE rest mass can go faster than light - relativity is not broken here and neither is causality.
Yes, J. Richard Gott, a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princetown university has written many articles about this subject.
The idea is that since every laser pulse contains a very short time when the pulse has negative energy density, a mirror spinning very fast (but well below c) could be used to seperate the bulk of the pulse containing positive energy and the brief moment of negative energy. However, this requires tens of millions of the most powerful lasers on Earth to collect enough energy in less than a century, however a supercivilization could build these lasers for superluminal travel. Hell, it could be done with a single laser if they could just wait (=live) for 10,000,000 times longer.
There is a very simple way to traver faster than c
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Simply put, a massive object like a spaceship cannot travel faster than light since it would require infinite energy.
However, this only applies to POSITIVE energy density (=mass) of the spaceship.
An advanced civilization could collect enough negative energy from for example a large array of very powerful lasers using spinning mirrors to make one of their spaceships to have NEGATIVE MASS.
With a negative total mass when accelerating it's mass would increase ever getting closer to 0 and when moving at c the mass would be exactly 0. After that, it could gain more speed (and positive mass from velocity - rest mass would of course still be negative) just like photons can temporary move faster than light (for example tunneling).
One notable feat of this level of technology is that it would allow them to freely enter and exit event horizons and view the singularity.
Also, time travel would naturally be trivial as well as practically limitless lifespans but I assume that this level of species had already made itself immortal a long time ago - one of the major reasons that history seems to repeat itself here on Earth is the very short lifespan of the current dominant species of this planet...and thanks to people who so much believe in ancient fairy tales that they want to outlaw anything that would threaten their own way of living I might be forced about 50 years from now to stop pursuing what I think is the meaning of life: wisdom and knowledge.
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Unfortunately this hack doesn't remove the watermarking, so you can't make a copy to a DVD-+R disc. Is there any possibility to make a player that doesn't adhere to all the draconian measures included just to restrict how the content is used like watermarking, like there are DVD-video players that don't care about regions, Macrovision and prohibited user options (skipping commercials..)?
Quote from Ars Technica:
"The only caveat is that DVD-Audio's Verance digital watermarking, embedded in the audio signal itself, cannot be removed. The Verance watermark contains seventy-two bits of data comprising four CCI (copy control information) bits and eight usage identifier bits every fifteen seconds plus sixty content identifier bits every thirty seconds - if a DVD-Audio player detects that an embedded watermark does not match that of a specific disc (in other words if ripped DVD-Audio content is burnt to a blank DVD-R disc using an authoring program such as DiscWelder BRONZE), the machine will halt playback after thirty seconds."
This exploit has been already fixed in the 1.51 and 1.52 firmware releases. Thanks to grandparent for good explanation though!
Mixed copyright law with the EUCD?
Circumventing copyright protection schemes is absolutely NOT illegal in Finland - at least yet.
This is one of the few benefits from paying Teosto huge levies on every media.
Finland has ratified the EUCD directive but not merged it's own regulations to support it so for the time being you can crack, hack and reverse-engineer as much as you like.
Copyright infringement was, is, and will be illegal - the EUCD just makes circumventing any protection illegal too (even if you legally own the software/movie/music/other digital content.). No idea how it would affect Teosto levies, from what I've heard it's one of the main reasons the EUCD isn't merget yet (the original date for merging was 2002/12).
..is that WHY, oh why do these sites keep logs like this about their users? Basic anonymous statistics and logging of unusual activities like port scans are fine for me, but why did they log up/downloads that they knew to be illegal in many (most?) countries?
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What really bothers me is that even when they knew that the MPAA was coming to them and they started raising money to defend themselves why didn't they securely delete all the logs they had? Smells like a plea bargain or even something more rotten to me.. I hope I'm just too paranoid.
This wasn't the first time though, remember how Suprnova's logs were turned to MPAA too.
Also remember how Sharereactor also wanted donations and after raising $15k+ (and considerable ad revenue) it's owner simply vanished, the site was still shut down and nobody has heard from their donations since.
The only reasonable explanation that I've heard is that it's simply illegal to host a site without any logging in some countries. Similar sites in Sweden and Switzerland at least claim to have no logging whatsoever. Anyone know where Lokitorrent was physically hosted?
As a side note, here's a free tool to search for log files from EFF and an article at Ars Technica:
http://www.eff.org/osp/
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050210-460
From the Wikipedia article:
"HDCP bans analog outputs from compliant products, presumably in an attempt to reduce the size of the analog hole in HDCP devices."
So it's either HDMI or nothing.
Are HDTV resolution video cameras available? If they are affordable there's still a way to make an analog copy.
Certainly not with SCSI but maybe with SATA+PCIe?
..wait, someone's at the door
Let's do some calculations!
The raw data rate is 4Gbps/8=500MB/s.
A single PCIe channel is 250MB/s so we need at least two, not counting any overhead.
Very, very few and expensive cards support more than 4 HDDs/card so it's cheaper to get three cards.
Fastest hard drives can barely sustain 50MB/s writes (remember to check the rate for the entire platter, not just the fastest part!) so we need at least 10 HDDs, not counting any overhead.
A 10x73GB SCSI array could hold only 24,3 minutes of programs, maybe a single episode with the commercials cut off in real-time?
A 10x500GB SATA array could hold 2 hours and 46 minutes of data, enough for most movies.
There is absolutely no redundancy so pray every night that no single drive fails or your movie is gone.
Would you buy three PCIe RAID controllers and ten 500GB drives, a new PSU & server case just to record A SINGLE MOVIE?
As for sharing with your friends it's just ~10TB/movie..
The only solution is to use realtime MPEG2/4 compressor, there ARE some (very impressive looking, I might add!) HDTV rips floating around, for instance Terminator 3 is about 8300MB compressed as MPEG2 in 1280x720.
But what happens when your capture card refuses to save the data due to flags/watermarks/the evil bit? Clearly just saving the raw stream is not feasible so better get that capture card now at least if you live in the US. Thank goddess we don't have a Federal Censorship Committee (yet).
I'm sorry for ranting a bit, the very idea that my own hardware doesn't follow my simple orders like "record" but obeys someone elses wishes is downright disgusting. Well, at least I can modify the hardware I bought so they don't obey the overlord's...
One correction:
Consumer VCR's are required by law to recognize the Macrovision signal in the United States, so it's not the AGC's fault!
Remember SCMS? It's also a "feature" mandated by law in the good old USA.
Not a small part. It's about 40% of the retail price.
Teosto also collects over 1 euro for every DVD-+R(W) disc. As a result a pack of 50 no-brand discs costs 129 euros here versus 25 euros when ordered from Estonia INCLUDING shipping. However, importing CDs and DVDs without paying the levies is illegal and carries insane penalties (fines over 20 euros for a single disc and even jail time).
And no, you can't legally download or copy CDs nor DVDs even though you have to pay the levies - there's absolutely NO way for a non-corporation to avoid paying the levy other than ordering from abroad, but like I said before that's illegal.
The reason for this insanity is partly the fact that the majority of Finns continue to vote for the same celebrities year after year, even after they raised their own already mind-boggling salaries by 60% and lowered their retirement age to 45 years while the country was suffering from record-high unemployment and new lay-offs were announced every week.
As my personal opinion I think only those with higher education should be allowed to vote and all goverment officials should not be paid more than the average salary.
Currently it's impossible to do 1:1 copies of StarForce3 and SafeDisc5 protected CDs since all CD-R and CD-RW discs have a groove already pressed at the factory that the writing laser follows.
Both copy protections work by using a variable groove on pressed CDs that CD-RW drives can't physically reproduce, just like it's impossible to make a 1:1 copy of ANY CSS protected DVD with a computer DVD+-RW drive since all DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) discs are crippled from the factory!
Of course, the serious pirates just press their copies just like original CDs/DVDs, so it's just us customers that get screwed.
I recently got a used network laser printer for $200, it has both PCL5 and PS and since it's my first laser would somebody be kind enough to explain which mode should I use?
Are there any differences in print quality and/or speed, resource usage or something else I should know about? In case it matters the printer has 64MB of memory, a 4MB flash card (for firmware upgrades??) and no hard disk.
The PCL5 driver reports the printer as 24ppm, max 1200dpi and PS driver as 16ppm, max 1200dpi - is PCL really 50% faster or is this just a driver quirk?
I would test it myself but the toner refill won't arrive untill next Tuesday.
Thanks in advance to anyone who helps a laser newbie!
Since Creative owns a vast patent portfolio it has acquired from Aureal and Sensaura it can effectively dictate the (near) future of 3D PC audio.
Since they have all the patented wave-tracing algorithms Aureal used there won't be any third-party solutions and that means no competition for at least the near future and that means more profit for the shareholders - can't blame them for that.
I owned a MX300 and it was far superior to SB Live!, my personal opinion is that the last good card Creative made was the SB32, the SB64 was a SB32 with a software synth for the extra 32 voices and a proprietary memory expansion slot instead of standard SIMM slots (I recall 2MB upgrade costing $55).
Any comments on the new Audigy cards?
I had enough with the SB PCI series (SB512 anyone?) and switched to Terratec's cards (no SCMS on digital outputs/inputs!) and haven't looked back since.
Good 7.1 sound and the money I saved went towards a GF6800 GT.
First, set the following system variables:M GR_SHOW_DETAILS=1
.sys drivers! (cracked version of Doom 3 works fine on Win9x for instance).
DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
DEV
Then go to Device Manager and choose View->Show Hidden Devices and then double-click "Non-Plug and Play Drivers".
There you can see them all, like secdrv (SecuROM).
They can be easily uninstalled there but after that uncracked games might not work.
By the way, these copy protection drivers are the reason some games work only on Windows 2000 or better, Win9x can't use
..just check your windows\system32\drivers for secdrv.sys, set to auto-load and -execute on bootup.
Does any one know if the new SecuROM also uses kernelmode drivers?
"We at PestPatrol do not find significant substance to the Internet rumors to continue our detection and removal of C-Dilla. So PestPatrol does NOT detect C-Dilla. This page is posted for your information only"
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http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/c-dilla.as
http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/0800/09.dvdwat ermark.shtml
I really liked the bit about "watermarking causes 24-bit resolution to drop to even less than 16-bit in practise..."
>The fact that you can play the file at all means that you *must* already be in possession of the decryption key.
Well, it means that your "trusted" DRM-player knows the second part of the keypair - not "untrusted" human beings like you and me.
I completely agree that absolutely robust DRM is an impossible task, however ripping keys inside custom chips will take years and huge resources ($5M+) even from professional copyright infringers and even after that the actual algorith will be still unknown (and you can't sniff it since all traffic until the D/A stage is encrypted).
SACD has been in the market from 1999, five years and still not a single method to rip the digital data out of the disc and DVD-A's DRM is even stronger on the paper.
This is not something that Norwegian teenagers can crack - but I truely hope that I will be proved wrong or I simply won't ever purchase any SACD of DVD-A titles.
You clearly misunderstood my post or you talked right out of your arse.
Recording two channels is not enough - we need 6-channel recording to copy an analog 5.1 audio track.
You COULD do this with a consumer sound card but it would take three passes and would require laborous post-processing to sync the three recordings back to a 5.1 track.
Also, if the keys are inside custom chips they won't be extracted without some serious equipment including a couple of scanning electron microscopes AND a complete blueprint of the chip insides that you simply won't get anywhere.
If cracking DVD-A is as easy as DVD-V, where are all the rippers?
Where is even the most basic information about the keys, even the most basic information how the data is decrypted and moved around?
DVD-V's weakness was storing some of the keys outside hardware, that made DeCSS possible. Also, the bus could be sniffed and the keys were always stored at the same place on the disc.
All these shortcomings have been corrected with DVD-A, so my bleak prediction is that ripping the full fidelity tracks won't happen within the next five years. (note that DVD-A also checks the physical parameters of the disc so like with crippled DVD-R discs you can't physically make a 1:1 copy)
Do you have any links?
The encryption on DVD-A is much "improved" (for the content holders) and they really took lessions from DVD-video.
All the internal communications are encrypted so no sniffing of the (de)compressed audio in it's digital form.
Currently no-one even seems to know where exactly the keypair is stored, when the player authenticates it seems to read what seems random parts of the disc and possibly create a hash of some kind.
As all buses are encrypted it's all just quessing..
The analog hole still remains but very few soundcards (AFAIK no consumer sound card has this ability) offer multichannel *recording* - you need to hook up all 6 channels to your sound card and re-digitize the sound and keep all channels in perfect sync to make a decent analog copy.
On Creative sound cards even 2-channel recording is impossible - my Audigy 2 card simply refuses to record analog audio from a DVD-A player so even the analog data is watermarked.
I really wonder what this watermarking does with the sound quality, not any good that's for sure..
..don't cause any wear and are on he same price range as other quality turntables.
;)
I also don't have any dust on my LPs, CDs, not even inside my computers so maybe you should just hover more often..?
Also, even on needle turntables dust isn't a problem in any recent equipment and unlike CDs you don't have to worry about 0.2mm deep scratches on the topside.
I know that DVD-A is encrypted with a new, strong encryption and that no rippers exist and according to hydrogenaudio.org probably will not exist untill home quantum computers..
Does anyone know more details? I know for sure that my player only outputs downsampled content on both optical and coax.
Files can be copied with any DVD-ROM drive but the files are useless.
Also, what is the situation with SACDs?
No rippers seems to exist either, so it's
also encrypted and downsampled for digital outputs? What is the filesystem used and how is legacy CD-support achieved?
All accurate info and links would be appreciated.
WIPO plans to extend copyrights for any broadcasted material (including everything in public domain!) from 20 years to 50 years, link here:
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http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/release20040608.sht
Information can be transmitted faster than light if the carrier medium has negative mass.
You MUST however first agree how to interpret the data by something that travels at c (radio) or slower (carrier pigeons).
Note that this would NOT go backwards in time unlike an object with a positive mass traveling past c, it would just go faster than a light pulse sent at the same time! No negative ping times for Half-life XVII..
Too bad that this would be very difficult to do while on Earth since you would need a vacuum between the endpoints, not to mention the difficulties of getting the required negative energy at the first place (terawatt lasers anyone?).
Note for knee-jerk reactions: relativity predicts that nothing with a POSITIVE rest mass can go faster than light - relativity is not broken here and neither is causality.
Yes, J. Richard Gott, a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princetown university has written many articles about this subject.
The idea is that since every laser pulse contains a very short time when the pulse has negative energy density, a mirror spinning very fast (but well below c) could be used to seperate the bulk of the pulse containing positive energy and the brief moment of negative energy. However, this requires tens of millions of the most powerful lasers on Earth to collect enough energy in less than a century, however a supercivilization could build these lasers for superluminal travel.
Hell, it could be done with a single laser if they could just wait (=live) for 10,000,000 times longer.
Simply put, a massive object like a spaceship cannot travel faster than light since it would require infinite energy.
..and thanks to people who so much believe in ancient fairy tales that they want to outlaw anything that would threaten their own way of living I might be forced about 50 years from now to stop pursuing what I think is the meaning of life: wisdom and knowledge.
However, this only applies to POSITIVE energy density (=mass) of the spaceship.
An advanced civilization could collect enough negative energy from for example a large array of very powerful lasers using spinning mirrors to make one of their spaceships to have NEGATIVE MASS.
With a negative total mass when accelerating it's mass would increase ever getting closer to 0 and when moving at c the mass would be exactly 0. After that, it could gain more speed (and positive mass from velocity - rest mass would of course still be negative) just like photons can temporary move faster than light (for example tunneling).
One notable feat of this level of technology is that it would allow them to freely enter and exit event horizons and view the singularity. Also, time travel would naturally be trivial as well as practically limitless lifespans but I assume that this level of species had already made itself immortal a long time ago - one of the major reasons that history seems to repeat itself here on Earth is the very short lifespan of the current dominant species of this planet.
Unfortunentaly at least PowerDVD 5 doesn't have such patch, my only solution was to rip all my DVDs and encode them to xvid.
There are patches for some VERY old Detonators, does anyone know whether Catalyst 4.x series have this "feature"?