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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?"
Invention: Teenage computer hackers struggled to access the new disc. 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?" Pirates: Their days are numbered. 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.

*gasp* nooooooooooooooo :kader: :( :f***:

why does this sound like a old school record and a 12 inch record player with a needle to me?

The Japanese probably had this kind of technology in the 60's. :D

I don't know why, but I can't see this idea taking off unless the sound quality is better and it offers more to us than a CD. Who is going to pay for a new player and then these discs which no doubt will probably cost more to produce, just so the artists don't lose money. They will probably stick CD's up, and then lower the cost of these things, then when they get popular, stick the price up.

Trust me it wont happen

Bands are actually infavour of having their music being 'shared' and some company labels are looking towards making music 'shared' on the internet at a price lets say of $1 people pay as they like - your garanteed music quality and you download exactly what you want which makes a difference from things like Kazaa 70% downloads are real.

I have gone through the BETA-VHS revoultion, the LASER DISC - DVD revoultion the Tape-CD revoultion and the current CD-Mini Disc-MP3 revoultion its one thing I know its that some fads or trends dont last.

**** the RIAA. They're never stopping me from downloading. It will only make me download more and more and more and more.....

For every song that you don't download,
I'll download three

I give it a month until someone hacks it!!! :evil:

I'd get Lo pan to ruin everyones ****!!!


ALBEITZ INCOHERENTLY

last time SONY came up with the advaced technology, it turned out you could erase the protection by drawing a straight line with a marker on the CD :crazyboy:

When was this? :confused:

2 years ago or so...

Hmm... *draws lines on all his copied PS2 discs*

Like that?

*runs to comp* BURN THE STASH DAD

CDs are always gonna be ripped, the protection is flawed. Audio-DVDs: now that's a problem!

Yer, a Month No Doubt!(H)

Nothing is safe from Hackers:rockman: :rockman:

Xbox was supposed to be unhackable, and it was literally raped in 4 months.

I too give it 1 month before they find away around it. Hackers these days are amazing.

On the other hand, when will the RIAA learn, they'll never win. They should save themselves money by not spending it on protection because there's ways around everything.

the best way to protect from piracy:

make the ****in prices lower! instead of investing money in the :drevil: protection systems :drevil:, sell the CD's for less, and no one will bother to download it off the net :mrpimp:

Gareth...:rolleyes:

This is idiotic, how do you get music from a sound system to speakers? By running it through a reciever. Well guess what, I can record anything that goes through the reciever.

Of course the hackers will never crack it if they don't have the instrument that plays the disc. I can just picture them trying to shove a record into the cd drive.

I hope you guys are being scarcastic....

just to protest agaisnt this, i'm gonna download 50 Mp3s now :)

um that is so fake :|

if worst comes to worst you connect the output thingie on the disc player onto your computer and just record the whole thing on ulead or summin; and then chop it up into songs

Originally posted by Larry
um that is so fake :|

I PM'ed Bobby to tell him to keep quiet about it. But ohhhhhhh no. Mr L a r r y has to come in and spoil the party. I'll have words with you on MSN Mr...When my PC is finally working again. :(

BTW Larry, you completed your Yahoo pool games mate?

Originally posted by K3nzo
I give it a month until someone hacks it!!! :evil:

i fully agreed with u.. there isn't anything in this world that is unhackable.. :evil:

Originally posted by K-Man
the best way to protect from piracy:

make the ****in prices lower! instead of investing money in the :drevil: protection systems :drevil:, sell the CD's for less, and no one will bother to download it off the net :mrpimp:

yes.. this is the best way to fight piracy.. if they can drop their price to almost the same price as the current pirated CD no one will buy those pirated cds.. and certainly no one will download from the net..

To the Inept CD Companies.

Give up.


Those three gaywads you got to try crack your 'records' we're probably not as nerdy as they may have seemed.

If you get about, a internet worth of hackers, cons, god knows what else then you're gonna lose.

How about you pull your hand out of your trousers, lower the prices, don't be gay and make cd's actually worth buying :)

If it plays sound, then there's gonna be losers (technically winners after they make the CD fags look dumb, again) who'll spend day and night recording the sound that comes out of the speakers, whack it on the comp and distribute it :)

CD Companies, now officially stands for: Complete Dickhead Companies :).

EMI: Em I Inept? ('Em' pronounced 'Am' :|)

I am not exactly worried, it'll take them forever to produce the crap, and then getting people to buy it will be a challenge. Not all will go that way, and therefor they're plan will ultimately fail :).

yeah they'll never win ... they'd might as well just give and give us copies of the new albums and singles that come ... then we might stop downloading music from the net

Originally posted by Nimreitz
This is idiotic, how do you get music from a sound system to speakers? By running it through a reciever. Well guess what, I can record anything that goes through the reciever.

Of course the hackers will never crack it if they don't have the instrument that plays the disc. I can just picture them trying to shove a record into the cd drive.

Exactly! The soundblaster Live (along with most other cards probably) has a "what you hear" setting in which it will record anything fed into the cards input...actually you could also set it to wav recording as well...all you need is a decent player for whatever format they come up with and feed the out put into ya pc.

Personally I think this whole article is a wind up, they are describing vinyl records! ...it's a joke that is making fun of the recording industrys lack of ability to come up with a way to combat piracy and so they go back to using old records :D

Can't beleive some of you fell for this lol I was laughing after the first few lines:D

But what were you thinking... 12 inches?? **** man that probably wouldnt fit in a backpack.

I wonder how long it took for someone to write that :rolleyes: What sad, sad, people :rolleyes:

This is "el toro excremento" (H)


12 inch cd's?! Who the fu*k gonna buy that sh!t?


You'd have to carry your discman in bag?!?! Fuc* that shiz! :crazyboy: (H)

I've got 12 inch vinyls, those are used by DJs. Good solution. You can't rip those :p

You can rip it on to tape then on to CD....not worth all the work tho.:p

dudes, its fake.. they said it like 10 posts ago :rolleyes:

Yeah, you can plug a red-white plug into it..i just turned around and looked at my turn-table.

Gareth PMed me to not tell what it was last night :p

You can already rip/record songs from record player to your pc

Originally posted by K-Man
the best way to protect from piracy:

make the ****in prices lower! instead of investing money in the :drevil: protection systems :drevil:, sell the CD's for less, and no one will bother to download it off the net :mrpimp:

why pay money, when you can get it for free. That rule applies to so much stuff.....

Originally posted by Ljungberg08
Gareth PMed me to not tell what it was last night :p

I would have PM'ed Larry too. But he came out with it all in one post. :f***:

Ah well, got a few people. :(

I believed it when reading it, then I read it again and thought to myself, 12 inch record? That's like a bloody super frisbee.

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Police record (H) :hump: :mrpimp:

Originally posted by Fotbalguy
why pay money, when you can get it for free. That rule applies to so much stuff.....

nope.. if their price are reduce i won't mind paying for it as the original CD quality is much better then those of mp3.. mp3 is just near CD quality..

My high school had lazer disc players, the remote was HUGE!

My views on music piracy:
If it is two or three songs on an album, I feel that is ok, as a taster. But to download a whole album is taking the piss IMO.

See if it's a new dude on the scene nobody is anticipating the new album. but if it's 50's or dmx's new album, people are gonna be all over it with bootlegging and all that. and they usually blow on their first album and get rich. so if they sell 250.000 less copies than normal. what's that gonna do? it aint gonna effect the money you already made. and btw, artists make money on tours and s hit. it's the companies that profit off record-sales.

also, underground artists nor the DJs make no money whatsoever selling mixtapes.

More **** from the RIAA

The Recording Industry Association of America has shifted the on-line fight for control over their media to a whole new level by announcing that they are suing individual students who set-up LAN based file sharing services at their colleges.
The announcement comes as no surprise to many in the industry as the RIAA has warned it will be forced to resort to going after individuals it beleives are responsible for "large-scale distribution of music recordings over the Internet".

The RIAA has filed suit against four students already, two from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI), one from Michigan Technological University (MTU) anfd another from Princeton University. The students are accused of utilizing the computer networks at their colleges to distribute millions of copyrighted songs to others at the same university. The RIAA stated that these services are "Just like Napster" and seeks to put an end to these services as they did with Napster, calling on the same legal prosecution.

"The court ruled that Napster was illegal and shut it down. These systems are just as illegal and operate in just the same manner. And just like Napster, they hurt artists, musicians, songwriters, those who invest in their work, and the thousands of others who work to bring music to the public." - said RIAA president Cary Sherman.

What was not reported however was how the RIAA determined that these services were infringing on their copyrights, and how they were able to verify that these services existed considering they were local to the schools and not publicly accessible on the world wide web.

The RIAA is seeking damages of up to $150,000 per song on the services in addition to attorneys' fees of course.

The reaction to this move by students and consumers alike is uncertain, but if more students were to join in the ban of the purchasing CD's as a boycott, it is extremely likely the RIAA would simply contribute this loss of sales to piracy also.

Fact: KaZaA is Austrailian, RIAA is American

The RIAA can't touch KaZaA unless Aus. Gov't gives premission.

KaZaA is Dutch, owned by an Australian company, but you're right. RIAA can still go to courth with some special papers that would also apply to foreign countries. Don't know what the deal is exactly and how it's enforced.

ummmmm............................................ ...
Did you know gullible isn't in the dictionary?

Originally posted by LaBrujita
ummmmm............................................ ...
Did you know gullible isn't in the dictionary?

Hush. ;)

http://www.winamp.com/news.jhtml?articleid=9940

KaZaA is Dutch?

This just keeps adding weight to my claims Holland's the best country in the world. :D

Kazaa made by 2 dutch guys, yes.

Gullible not in the dictionary. I'll use "No comment" on that one.

KaZaa is protected by the Dutch Courts ... dunno which court specifically.

ATM they're untouchable, and good thing ;)

10 times :o

wow, they must be lonely :(




:hump: (H)

Originally posted by JJ
Also I read something in The Register a few months ago of the RIAA planning to infect MP3's with viruses as a way of getting back at the users who download their music. That is just wrong! :kader:

No wonder their site has been hacked about ten times in the last year.
If they did that to me, I'll use a bit of semtex to sort the ****ers out.

I always thought you were passive :D

its idiotic, if they lowered the price of cd's maybe people would be able to afford them.

Give me any player and a midi/hifi cord and I can pirate anything.

Within 10 mins of getting the first CD I could be uploading songs to the internet..... I dare them to try it so I can expose their stupidity!

Any audio file can be copyed....

Old School :mrpimp:

No matter how advance the technology it was still made by humanbeings, nothing can coupe our brains. We will always find a way . . .

Where there is a will there is a way

It's time record companys wake up and smell the bacon and realise why people download MP3's. It's simple, lower the price of cd's and there would be a lot more people buying them. In Ireland the average price for a cd is E25, so if you buy 4 cd's, it costs about E100, criminal.

Bloody waste - double underlined!!!

I just read the size of that thing, 12 inch . . . WTF ??? :| :| :|

I totally agree, way too expensive. And I download songs to try out a band. I'd never download a full album though.

can anyone tell me a good piracy website

What ya mean? Anti-piracy website, pro-piracy website or a website that just does a lot of piracy? (H) :confused:

Naw, I think he's talking about these guys :rolleyes:

http://www.thesync.com/snack/pirates.jpg

I take everything too serious :rolleyes: ;)

roflmao

can anyone tell me a website that i can download music on

This is a trick, he is an FBI agent. (N)

sorry Mulder, we're not into that kind of thing here (N) :kader:

i love downloading music, and never stop since the day i know the existence of mp3s, as long as i can access to internet.

i do still buy music cds tho, but very rarely. about 2 - 3 cds a year. after all the original ones are still better of qualities. but as many ppl said over and over again, they should concentrate on lowering the price of cds so every consumer thinks the cds are worthy to buy. they dont even have to lower the price to be as cheap as pirated cds, imo. personally i just cant beat the feeling after everytime i bought an orignal cd. it makes u feel good.

ryan_goal: You have the right to remain silent, every thing you say may and will be used against you. You have the right to a lwayer. If you can't afford one, one will be provided for you.

No put your hands up punk!

yeah, get in the car min

http://www.smilies.nl/overige/563.gif

go quietly

pppppllllllllllzzzzzzzzzz

Police brutality :evil:

so Vagegast, what's wrong with u? or which part of my comments have offended u so u have to talk so much crap?

if u never downloaded a single mp3, then tribute to you. but there is no need to call others punk.

It wasn't meant seriously. Agitated, huh? Take a chill pill and rent a comedy movie. Comedy = healty.

my bad.

i wouldn't mind a chill pill myself.

all a happy family :D :larry:

:rockman:

so we'll be seeing more of you then...

yeh, but u r always welcome when I'm here :D

-S

If it wasn't for MP3, I don't think I would have internet. It was the main reason I got internet year and years ago.

Put it this way, it is a past time.

Heheheheheheheheh this sounds like a gag to me. You know high quality piss-take ? Record ? Vinyl? GrooveS? Turntable . LMAO

yes, we discovered that on about the 3rd page of this thread :read:

:kader: