[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[retard]

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:17:33 +0000, BCS wrote:

> Hello domino,
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
> I've never owned a CD player that wasn't a CD-ROM drive. I've never come
> across a disk I couldn't play.

You must be young then. I got my first CD-ROM drive with my Pentium 75. 
The first 1x external CD-ROM drives were pretty expensive. I think one 
used to cost around $600..800. Before 1994 I only had a CD walkman and a 
moderately cheap entry level hi-fi system.

On top of that, the first CD-ROM drives provided ridiculously bad audio 
quality and connectivity. Also the 16-bit SB clones were trash.