Music Industry Unveils New Piracy-Proof Format:

[skunnk1]

:shy

Although this article was written for humors sake,it is the absolute truth.Check this out.:

Music Industry Unveils New Piracy-Proof Format: A Black, Plastic Disc With Grooves On It


Music bosses have unveiled a revolutionary new recording format that they hope
will help win the war on illegal file sharing which is thought to be costing the
industry millions of dollars in lost revenue.

Nicknamed the 'Record', the new format takes the form of a black, vinyl disc
measuring 12 inches in diameter, which must be played on a specially designed
'turntable'.

"We can state with absolute certainty that no computer in the world can access
the data on this disc," said spokesman Brett Campbell. "We are also confident
that no-one is going to be able to produce pirate copies in this format without
going to a heck of a lot of trouble. This is without doubt the best anti-piracy
invention the music industry has ever seen."

As part of the invention's rigorous testing process, the designers gave some
discs to a group of teenage computer experts who regularly use file swapping
software such as Limewire and gnutella and who admit to pirating music CDs.
Despite several days of trying, none of them were able to hack into the disc's
code or access any of the music files contained within it.

"It's like, really big and stuff," said Doug Flamboise, one of the testers. "I couldn't
get it into any of my drives. I mean, what format is it? Is it, like, from France or
something?"

In the new format, raw audio data in the form of music is encoded by physically
etching grooves onto the vinyl disc. The sound is thus translated into variations
on the disc's surface in a process that industry insiders are describing as
'completely revolutionary' and 'stunningly clever.'

To decode the data stored on the disc, the listener must use a special player which
contains a 'needle' that runs along the grooves on the record surface, reading the
indentations and transforming the movements back into audio that can be fed
through loudspeakers.

Even Shawn Fanning, the man who invented Napster, admits the new format will
make file swapping much more difficult. "I've never seen anything like this," he
told reporters. "How does it work?"

As rumours that a Taiwanese company has been secretly developing a
12 inch wide, turntable -driven, needle-based, firewire drive remain unconfirmed,
it would appear that the music industry may, at last, have found the pirate-proof
format it has long been searching for.

I got the article from here - http://www.urbanreflex.com/may24_02/record.html

[Siskabush]

Oh dear god that is funny!

If only it were true.

[Psilaxs]

And i guarantee that there will be youngsters that will believe this LOL

[serrebi101]

lol hahaha I loved the is it from like, france? bit! ahhaha , lol I know ppl who would say stuff like that,

[skunnk1]

I can picture a kid trying to stick it in his CD rom drive.

[snowborder74]

lol thats a real funny one you goth there....but if you took a second to think about it they would be easy to rip via using your mic port and a headphone jack deal thingy if it works in reverse

[skunnk1]

Lol, never mind that! Just get one of those Edison machines, and put the speaker by the horn.

[The Hunter]

Want to hear something even funnier, i can rip it to 8track, cassette, or CD. If I try real hard I can even put it on reel to reel.

[theinfamouszman]

Actually... i have turntables running through a digital/analog mp3 rack unit through a mixer. It has USB interface and can rip a vinyl in realtime to a .wav file. It even has noise reduction.

:)

RIAA can't win!

[NDGAARONDI]

Yeah I know of some good CD software that allows you to take stuff from vinyl anyway.

Next thing they'll try and stop people recording off the TV next and allowing people to use their TV-out port to use videos and images from TV on their PC next!

[nasrules]

lol there will be some ppl who will take this seriously!!! nice one whoever posted it!!!!!!!!!!

[Krell]

Solid Gold baby !

[NDGAARONDI]

nice one!

[Krell]

I just raped over 30,000 wallpapers, bmps and jpg off DC++. I am still trying to size it all up, thx everyone!


I had to shrink that image down to fit here, used ACDSee 5, took all of 20 seconds to do it.

[TransShift]

http://news.dmusic.com/article/5675

Says it all.

"http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99993020

Copy protection on CDs is 'worthless'

19:00 06 November 02

Barry Fox

The technology built into some CDs to stop people copying them is futile, according to a computer scientist who has put today's antipiracy systems under the microscope. He believes the continual software and hardware upgrades issued by the makers of computer CD drives and audio CD players render copy protection systems pointless in the long run.

John Halderman, a computer scientist from Princeton University in New Jersey, plans to show delegates at a digital copyright conference in Washington DC next week that the idea of CD copy-prevention is "fundamentally misguided".

In 2001, Princeton University scientists debunked the technology the music industry planned to use to inaudibly watermark sound. Halderman is now doing a similar job on copy prevention systems.

Halderman looked at three widely available copy-protected CDs. He found that the three different copy protection formats they used all had one thing in common: they all index the contents of music discs using a system meant only for recording CDs on a computer's CD drive.

Table of contents

A conventional music CD has an electronic table of contents at the beginning of each disc. But a PC-recorded CD has several tables, with a new one written every time a new recording session adds something to the disc. Each of these tables points back to the previous one.

Personal computer CD drives read the last, most recent table first and work back through the series of indices - but audio CD players read only the first table.

A CD containing a copy-prevention system indexes the music correctly in the first table but then adds dummy tables containing deliberate errors. So CD players that read only the first table will play the music normally. But PC CD drives - which people use for copying - look at the last table, see garbage, get confused and play or record nothing.

Unfortunately, some audio CD players and in-car players use PC CD drives, and will not legitimately play a protected CD you have paid for. Nor can people play music CDs on their PCs.

"Simple modifications"

But all these measures can be sidestepped, says Halderman, thanks to the computer industry's habit of continual upgrading and bug fixing. Makers of CD players and CD-ROM drives only need to make "relatively simple modifications" to their software and supposedly protected CDs can be played with ease. So playback and recording equipment is becoming resistant to copy-prevention techniques.

"Software upgrades can be delivered easily using the internet," says Halderman, "and this will permanently undermine the usefulness of audio CD copy prevention." To ban upgrades, he argues, would lead to "buggy software and poor hardware."

The record industry could lose a fortune if people stop buying CDs and make their own copies. Halderman reckons he has a solution for them. "Reduce the cost of new CDs; if discs cost only a few dollars each, buying them might be preferable to spending the time and effort to make copies or find them online." "