"domino" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Walter Bright Wrote: > >> domino wrote: >> > Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard movie/audio >> > CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection. >> >> CDs are not copy protected. > > False. > > I have 10--20 discs with cactus data protection. Two with sony bmg rootkit > protection system. And several with mediamax protection. At least the > cactus shit is annoying. They corrupted the audio on purpose and it's > audible even with a legal authentic cd audio player. If you place these > discs in a standard PC cd/dvd drive, it just spins and spins and spins and > spins and the OS either hangs or refuses to open the cd tray. I'm 100% > sure you are not allowed to break these.
The vast majority of CDs don't have that. I have approx 250 commercial audio CDs, and not a single one of them has any DRM. And if I did want something that only came on a DRMed CD, I'd just say "Fuck you Sony" and pirate it.
