[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:58:39 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> 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?

You notice in the cymbals the most :)  And Ulrich uses a lot of cymbals.

But you are right, the guitars aren't as noticeable (you can still hear it  
though).

-Steve