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Fighting Music Piracy with Glue
MusicPosted by chrisd on Monday September 16, @06:08AM
from the morons-morons-morons dept.
Scott Granneman writes: "The New York Times (Free Blah-di-blah) is reporting that Epic Records, in an effort to prevent reviewers from creating mp3s or even playing the preview CD in anything they don't control, is not disseminating the new Pearl Jam and Tori Amos CDs inside Sony Walkman players that are glued shut. Oh yeah ... the headphones are glued to the players too, to prevent any authorized output. A low-tech answer to a high-tech issue."

 

 
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From the article (Score:5, Funny)
by alnapp on Monday September 16, @06:12AM (#4264474)
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"I brought this discman home with me, and I found a way you could go in the back of the CD and, like, pop it open. So I got the actual disc out."

  So, they can't even use glue properly, its not wonder everything else has failed.
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Ed. (Score:5, Informative)
by dr_strang (sab68@ughspam.home.com) on Monday September 16, @06:13AM (#4264475)
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Let me edit this to make it actually make some sense :

"The New York Times (Free Blah-di-blah) is reporting that Epic Records, in an effort to prevent reviewers from creating mp3s or even playing the preview CD in anything they don't control, is now disseminating the new Pearl Jam and Tori Amos CDs inside Sony Walkman players that are glued shut. Oh yeah ... the headphones are glued to the players too, to prevent any unauthorized output. A low-tech answer to a high-tech issue."
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nothing new (Score:2, Funny)
by malus on Monday September 16, @06:14AM (#4264478)
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according to my girlfriend, a RABID Tori Amos fan, this is nothing new. She's apparently always done this.

Not that it matters, though, as I've had 7 tracks from Scarlet's Walk for well over two months now...
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duh. (Score:1)
by gTsiros on Monday September 16, @06:15AM (#4264482)
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Just clip the headphones' cables and input it to your soundcard...(yeah, i know the quality won't be perfect, but it will be ok)

this is really stupid... trying to "prevent"...

since they know they are losers from first hand, why do they just keep giving us these (stupid) challenges?

(what if we dissassemble the player and get the goddamn cd out of there, anyway)

i'm counting minutes until these songs appear on p2p
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In other news... (Score:1)
by andyt on Monday September 16, @06:15AM (#4264483)
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Slashot editors are not checking submissions to make sure they don't make sense.
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a tad too carried away... (Score:2, Informative)
by koldcuts (.moc.liamtoh. .ta. .stucdlok.) on Monday September 16, @06:16AM (#4264485)
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this had me scared for a moment before i read and realize this is being done to albums that are being reviewed, not purchased by consumers. and what's to stop a critic from throwing the cd player on the floor in a violent manner to miraculously break it and reveal the precious intellectual property within?
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not new... (Score:3, Informative)
by apidya on Monday September 16, @06:16AM (#4264488)
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why is this remarkable? record companies have been doing this for years?

if i recall correctly, emi distributed walkmans with copies of Radiohead's OK Computer album glued into them, back in 1997. and i belive this was by no means the first time the idea had been used.

the cost of several hundred (or even thousand) cheap cd walkmans is hardly going to eat into a multinational record companies bottom line.
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Nothing a low-tech smashing won't cure.. (Score:1)
by Beetjebrak on Monday September 16, @06:17AM (#4264489)
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If applied with some care, the walkman could just as easily be broken off the disc. "oops, it fell ten stories down when the reviewer was listening to it while leaning out is office window having a smoke". Or am I missing something here?? Otherwise, just clip the headphone wire.. hook them up to plain old audio plugs, or a mini jack and off you go into a decent sound card.
I'd say the digital part has to be done differently by providing a player with the album stored in some sort of encrypted ROM chip, but even then.. sound is still sound and must be made audible at some point to be appreciated. That's where you can tap it, and make a plain MP3 out of it.
Sony are just making themselve impopular with this kind of practice. When will the big companies learn that the genie is out, it's unstoppable, and their business models just need adjustment???
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Roll up, roll up ... (Score:2)
by Pogue Mahone on Monday September 16, @06:17AM (#4264491)
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.... see the daring Pogue Mahone violate the DMCA (again) ...

the headphones are glued to the players too, to prevent any authorized output

Why not cut the headphone lead and solder a suitable connector onto the Walkman end?

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Wire cutting (Score:5, Insightful)
by nick255 on Monday September 16, @06:17AM (#4264492)
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Ummmmm. I guess they must be assuming journalists are not engineers, as otherwise they could just cut the headphone wires and them connect them to their favourite input.
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Typo...? (Score:1)
by schepers on Monday September 16, @06:17AM (#4264493)
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"...is not disseminating..."
I think you mean "...is now disseminating...". Wouldn't be very big news if the industry was failing to conform to a practice that they had never done before... like charging reasonable prices or paying the artist fairly.

In other news, several major book publishers are distributing reviewer copies of their books with the pages glued together. And paying Oprah to rave about it, so there's no fear that it won't do well.
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Other ideas to ensure they're not distributed (Score:5, Funny)
by Brento (<brento> <at> <brentozar.com>) on Monday September 16, @06:18AM (#4264498)
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Use those greeting cards that play a tune when you open them.

Pay Tori to personally visit each reviewer with a guitar and play her songs.

Distribute the songs in Ogg Vorbis format. (rimshot)
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Wow! (Score:4, Funny)
by morie on Monday September 16, @06:19AM (#4264501)
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I'm gonna start reviewing CD's. Can't make a living with my reviews, but sure can use the extra income from the unglued diskmans I sell.
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And of course the headphones... (Score:5, Funny)
by leomekenkamp on Monday September 16, @06:23AM (#4264508)
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...would just have to be glued to your ears to prevent someone else from listening to it.
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low-tech could work ... (Score:2)
by cascadingstylesheet on Monday September 16, @06:27AM (#4264519)
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Not having read the linked article, in pure /. tradition ...

Make the players pretty colors, with about 400 slightly different models to compare and collect. Make them super cheap and flimsy; it's not like your going use one of them anywhere near as much as a general purpose player.

And best of all, just use a crippled format or something. Tech support problems solved! "Um, sir, you're not allowed to open it up and put the CD in your computer ...

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Environment (Score:3, Insightful)
by buzy buzy on Monday September 16, @06:28AM (#4264521)
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I know they are only releasing a limited supply of these to journalists, but seams to me this is very environmentally unfriendly.

Don't think a Sting preview will be released this way.

Are there plans to reuse or recycle the returned CD walkmans?
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really hard to circumvent? (Score:1)
by sdflkgfljdqshgjkqsfg on Monday September 16, @06:31AM (#4264525)
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Well I'm not an electronics engineer, but how hrd would it be to cut the headphone cord down the middle and hook up those two (left and right I assume) cables manually to a microphone, line it, noral stereo jack... well just about anything usefull to copy this cd?

Ok, so your headphones are [partly] useless but you get to copy the cd right?

Can someone in the know tell me if this doable? IS there a big loss? Is it just plain dumb?
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First Celine Dion, now *this*... (Score:1)
by erik_fredricks on Monday September 16, @06:31AM (#4264526)
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Man, I thought the Celine Dion disc screwed up some boxes. Imagine what might happen if I jam this baby into my cdrom drive...

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So don't review it (Score:5, Insightful)
by mccalli on Monday September 16, @06:33AM (#4264529)
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Return the thing unreviewed then, siting 'technical difficulties'.

Presumably other artists' CDs are put through the reviewers' own systems, set up the way they like them. Just say a fair comparison is impossible without putting these new CDs through that same system.

Of course, if you're feeling vindictive, you could always slate them instead...

Cheers,
Ian

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tinny sound (Score:2, Informative)
by nath_o_brien (nath_o_brien@yahoo.co.uk) on Monday September 16, @06:35AM (#4264536)
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How can a music reviewer be expected to give a favourable review solely by listening to the said CDs on a Walkman?

All the Walkmans I've owned have given the music a really tinny sound - even the supposedly decent quality ones.

Even if they hooked up the output to a proper speakers, they still probably wouldn't get the quality you would get from a good stereo set up - which these guys would be used to.

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Will these be collectors' items? (Score:1)
by erik_fredricks on Monday September 16, @06:36AM (#4264537)
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From the article:
This is not the first time prerelease music has received the glue treatment. Gil Kaufman, a freelance journalist in Cincinnati, said he owns a prerelease copy of Radiohead's 1997 album "OK Computer" that is glued into an Aiwa player — an Aiwa analog cassette deck. That makes MP3 conversions a bit more difficult.

I'm surprised I haven't seen this on Ebay. Some diehard Radiohead fan would love it, even if just for the kitsch value...

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This idea should be taken to it's logical end ... (Score:4, Funny)
by YeeHaW_Jelte on Monday September 16, @06:36AM (#4264539)
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... by glueing the earphones to the ears of the reviewers. Disposable reviewers will be needed, though.
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Sue the record industry (Score:1)
by bunaminenu on Monday September 16, @06:40AM (#4264545)
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if i were a musician, i would sue the record industry for preventing fans from hearing my music and for making that bad publicity. it's unbelieveble, no other industry is treating it's customers like pirats and criminals ...
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Reminds me of Nintendo's tactics... (Score:3, Interesting)
by I Love this Company! on Monday September 16, @06:41AM (#4264546)
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Back in the day of the original NES (and even today, I presume), Nintendo used to send a rep to the magazine reviewing the game, and he carried a system with the game bolted inside and sat there while the game was being reviewed, and the whole package was whisked away when the their time was up. Sounds like the record companies are taking a page from the gaming industry's playbook.
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Glue... shmoo (Score:2, Interesting)
by fruey on Monday September 16, @06:44AM (#4264552)
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Just the sort of reviewer that is going to rip to MP3 and share these CDs is going to have enough clue to break open the case / rewire those headphone connectors. This is all a publicity stunt to get the press to talk more about the two albums in question, and to get more "filesharing is bad" vibe into the press. Poor poor music industry losing to filesharing. They have to understand WHY we have no sympathy first.

They've done pretty well here though. How many of you vague Tori Amos fans knew she had a new album out before this article?

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Hammer = Copyright Circumvention Device = Banned (Score:5, Funny)
by femto on Monday September 16, @06:46AM (#4264557)
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So is hitting the walkman with a hammer an offence under the DMCA...?
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Not the first time this has been done. (Score:5, Informative)
by Andy Smith on Monday September 16, @06:48AM (#4264560)
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This has been done before. In 1998, preview copies of Radiohead's album "OK Computer" were sent out in sealed cassette players. And in 2000, preview copies of "Kid A" were sent out in an encrypted format on Sony VAIO digital players.

More info: http://www.followmearound.com/press/083.html [followmearound.com]
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So simple (Score:1)
by t_allardyce on Monday September 16, @06:48AM (#4264561)
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You dont even need to cut the wires and risk being discovered, you can use a pick-up coil to get the signal, or at the worst you could stick mics to the headphones. Ohh, and i hope they remembered to glue the screws on the back of the player, otherwise you could just take it apart, copy the disk and put it back together again.

I never really understood how you could review a song by britney spears any way. "Oops, I did it again, i crapped some music out my ass."?
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Digital outputs? (Score:1)
by majestynine on Monday September 16, @06:48AM (#4264562)
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I'd laugh my ass off if the discmans that Epic were giving out had a digital output on the side that hadn't been plugged or covered up. Making digitally perfect copies would be even easier and would sound just as good as a CD rip.

However, as a second thought, those sorts of features only appear on the more pricey units, I have no idea if Epic would use them. Its a funny thought though.

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You gotta wonder (Score:1)
by TheGreatInsomniac on Monday September 16, @06:49AM (#4264565)
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Why do they think that spending alot of money on cd players and then gluing them shut(ineffectivly at that), eliminating any chance of using them again, just to send to journalists is worth whatever they think they are losing just because the public hears it before they want them to? This is insanity!
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Great!!! (Score:1)
by Jaysyn (jaysyn_0@pCOMMAhreaker.net minus punct) on Monday September 16, @06:52AM (#4264569)
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Now alcohol will be illegal under the DMCA, due to it now being a circumvention device. That should get the proles attention.

Jaysyn
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self destruct mechanism (Score:3, Funny)
by z_gringo (z_gringo@ho[ ]il.com ['tma' in gap]) on Monday September 16, @06:55AM (#4264575)
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Now, they just need to develop something that destroys the disc, if you happen to force the cover open or remove the Headphone jack.

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This is the stupidest thing I ever heard... (Score:2, Informative)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 16, @07:00AM (#4264586)
When are these people going to learn? As long as it can be heard by the human ear, it can be recorded. It's that simple. I KNOW IT'S NOT A DIGITAL COPY!! (The analog to digital conversion will cause loss of quality to a degree. The degree of loss depends on the equipment and skill of the person doing the conversion.) But honestly, do you really think someone who is downloading an MP3 quality file off the Internet using P2P software is going to care? I'd bet my bottom dollar 95% of the population wouldn't know the difference even if you told them.
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Can you imagine.... (Score:1, Redundant)
by blakespot on Monday September 16, @07:01AM (#4264588)
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Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of Tori Amos's, all glued together, back to back?

Mmmmmm...

blakespot
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Reviewing these CDs... (Score:3, Insightful)
by hattig (spinningnucleon@nosPAM.yahoo.com) on Monday September 16, @07:02AM (#4264589)
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So they are expected to review the CD's through headphones from a walkman?

Doesn't that just strike people as being stupid? How will they get a subjective review of the audio quality? Are the music companies trying to hide poor audio quality from the reviewers by making them review the music through sub-optimal equipment?

This is just a sad example of how paranoid the music companies have become...
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No coincidence about the artists (Score:2)
by Jeppe Salvesen on Monday September 16, @07:03AM (#4264591)
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I don't think it is a coincidence that Tori Amos and Pearl Jam were targeted. Look at their past. Both have strong opinions about the recording industry. I bet they have pissed off enough executives, that this is the punishment.

The executives are probably hoping that the reviewers will be pissed off by the stupid restriction, and vent their anger in the reviews. That way, the executives can push more cooperative bands more effectively, since Tori Amos and Pearl Jam will be sidelined.

Whenever I hear about such acts of stupidity, I get more convinced that I should donate funds directly to the artists, and just get the music online.
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NYT: Epic Records Takes Steps to Seal ... (Score:3, Informative)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 16, @07:10AM (#4264606)
September 16, 2002
Epic Records Takes Steps to Seal Its Newest Music
By CHRIS NELSON

The Epic Records Group, a unit of Sony Music, is approaching the sticky problem of prerelease music's being traded online with an even stickier solution.

Writers receiving review copies of two soon-to-be-released albums — Tori Amos's "Scarlet's Walk" and Pearl Jam's "Riot Act" — are finding the CD's already inside Sony Walkman players that have been glued shut. Headphones are also glued into the players, to prevent connecting the Walkman to a recording device.

By locking up the discs, Epic hopes to keep writers from converting the music to MP3's that can then be traded over the Net. But even a "glueman" player is unlikely to deter a diehard critic.

"I'm a pretty big Pearl Jam fan," said Bart Blasengame, a staff writer at Details magazine who was sent one of the contraptions with "Riot Act" inside. "I brought this discman home with me, and I found a way you could go in the back of the CD and, like, pop it open. So I got the actual disc out."

Mr. Blasengame said he had no intention of making MP3's . "At the same time, if I want to give it a proper review, I'm going to listen to it how I want to listen to it — and in my stereo is where it sounds best," he said.

For several years, prerelease music has turned up online before it reaches stores, distributed without permission by journalists, radio employees, record company employees or other sources. This July, for example, a six-song sampler from Ms. Amos's upcoming album was shipped to writers the old-fashioned way. The songs soon appeared on file-sharing services like WinMX.

The Recording Industry Association of America blames Internet music-sharing for declines in CD sales, though proponents of MP3 trading dispute the group's arguments.

A Sony spokeswoman confirmed that the glued players were being used to combat piracy, but would not talk about their effectiveness or responses from writers.

This is not the first time prerelease music has received the glue treatment. Gil Kaufman, a freelance journalist in Cincinnati, said he owns a prerelease copy of Radiohead's 1997 album "OK Computer" that is glued into an Aiwa player — an Aiwa analog cassette deck. That makes MP3 conversions a bit more difficult.
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The future of music reviewing... (Score:3, Funny)
by Cl1mh4224rd on Monday September 16, @07:16AM (#4264619)
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"In an effort to prevent reviewers from creating MP3s or even playing the preview CD in anything they don't control, music labels are now disseminating a prewritten review of the CD, along with a bill for $17.99."
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Reminds me of Johny Mnemonic... (Score:1)
by JPZ on Monday September 16, @07:20AM (#4264628)
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"If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness."

- from Johny Mnemonic by William Gibson
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What's the problem? (Score:2)
by wiredog on Monday September 16, @07:21AM (#4264630)
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The article said the company is not disseminating the diskman glued shut. So if they're not doing it, why are people so upset? Seems that allowing the review copies to be freely disseminated is something Good.

What's that? You mean he meant is now disseminating? Oh, well, in that case, Flame On!

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Ears, (Score:2)
by DarkHelmet (elwakil@@@usc...edu) on Monday September 16, @07:22AM (#4264635)
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So, if I'm a reviewer and I let someone else listen to the CD, they are violating the DMCA.

Therefore, their ears must be chopped off.

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Why not digital? (Score:3, Insightful)
by gvonk (gvonk@u[ ]edu ['ga.' in gap]) on Monday September 16, @07:24AM (#4264639)
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I want to know why a solid-state mp3 player couldn't be used? They could just build their own and put the songs in ROM and just have no input. Kinda like those little "tiger beat" or whatever players that just play Britney Spears and you can get them at McDonald's.

I imagine building a custom player with built-in earbuds and only one album on it would be cheaper than this dumb glue thing.
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Circumventing at any cost? (Score:3, Insightful)
by goldspider on Monday September 16, @07:26AM (#4264642)
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Just about every day I see the latest attempt by the media/software industries to prevent the theft of their product, and usually soon after see a circumvention of that attempt. Sometimes this involves some rather convoluted and really bizarre ways of getting at that tasty morsel.

A lot of times these methods result in getting a much lower quality piece of software/media than if it were simply bought. A lot of times (mostly with software) the result barely works at all.

So is it really worth it to copy some of this stuff at any cost? I can't help but think that sometimes it would cost less time and aggravation to just go out and buy the damn software/music CD/DVD. And don't give me that "information wants to be free" crap either. There comes a point when it's just not worth the time or effort to circumvent copy protection just because you can.

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Now They're Going To Sue Netwon? (Score:2)
by crawling_chaos on Monday September 16, @07:26AM (#4264643)
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Since gravity is now a method of defeating an "effective" copy-protection mechanism?

<tap><tap>RIAA? That word you keep using? I don't think it means what you think it means.

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Been done before (Score:2, Funny)
by spakka on Monday September 16, @07:27AM (#4264644)
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I noticed that certain pages in my friend's twat magazines were glued together, presumably to prevent unauthorised copying.
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Wow... (Score:2)
by InfinityWpi (infinitywpi@yahoo.com) on Monday September 16, @07:28AM (#4264646)
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Y'know... I bet this is some smart-alec's way of getting back at us for the 'magic marker defeats copy protection' thing.
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Oh wait (Score:1)
by PovRayMan (Heh) on Monday September 16, @07:29AM (#4264656)
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Oh yeah...

Who would ever buy this?

NO ONE!

It seems that once again they think they can stop backing up music. Well... It's just not going to happen.
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Pearl Jam?? (Score:2, Offtopic)
by ONOIML8 (thor@sandpoint.net) on Monday September 16, @07:39AM (#4264681)
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Is that the same band that went to war with Ticketmaster for overcharging fans on ticket prices? Amazing. You would think they would........aw hell, you never can tell with these guys.

Especially since Pearl Jam became the Neil Young backup band.
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  • Re:Pearl Jam?? by Kamel Jockey (Score:2) Monday September 16, @09:22AM
Audio Fingerprinting (Score:1)
by Bocaj on Monday September 16, @07:40AM (#4264688)
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This is where those audio fingerprinting techniques should come in. You don't have to worry about copies if you add a unique fingerprint to each disk. Make the reviewer sign an agreement that says they will be held resposible if copies are found with that same fingerprint. The only thing the reviewer could complain about is that the fingerprinting alters the original. It sure beats listening to it on a walkman though.
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Soon we will realize.. (Score:2)
by Perdo on Monday September 16, @07:45AM (#4264701)
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That music from the RIAA is not as good as we thought it was.

Been to a concert lately? It beats the hell out of buying a cd.

You can't get laid listening to cd's anyway.

Stop buying music. Go out and listen to some instead.
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