esbrewer;317310 Wrote: > I'm not sure I follow the reasoning here. > > If iTunes and other less secure rippers popular with the general public > do not get hung up on such purposeful errors - where is the deterrent > value in their inclusion?
Well, record companies aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, are they? :-) It was a hairbrained scheme that was in use from 2003 to about 2005. The idea was that these errors (probably only a few bits) would be inaudible in a regular CD player but that a ripper would stumble on them. Rippers who don't do any error correction won't stumble on them because they just play straight through like a regular CD player does, errors and all. > Or are the record companies trying to deter the admittedly small > percentage of people in the marketplace who are concerned about their > rips not being bit-perfect? Shouldn't their efforts be focused on > deterring the common user? They've abandoned such schemes now, but it culminated in the infamous Sony rootkit debacle. That's as far as they went and they definitely crossed the line. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49492 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
