[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[retard]

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:58:39 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> 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?

That particular album consists of covers, but in general Metallica also 
has pretty calm ballads. Ever heard of 'Nothing else matters'? Even my 
grandmother used to love it.