On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:23:25 -0400, domino <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
perhaps it's time for a new CD drive?
FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the second disc) has some sort of anti-copy
distortion. You can actually see a pattern on the data side of the disc.
The result when you encode it via MP3 is some slight distortion, even at
160kb/s. It's pretty bearable though. I would expect that a bit-for-bit
copy would not have any issues though. It's not copy protection, it's
ripping protection.
-Steve
