[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Nick Sabalausky]

"domino" <effect at sitemine.org> wrote in message 
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> 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.