Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
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.
Given that Metallica uses heavily distorted guitars anyway, who would notice?
