Guys,
At the risk of taking up unnecessary bandwidth, I would like to include the
follwing that someone sent me a while ago regarding Vinyl Recordings. It
amused me at the time, and given the recent thread regarding MP3 I thought
some might find it funny here too ...
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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?"
> 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?"
> As rumors 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.
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