[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:23:25 -0400, domino <effect at sitemine.org> wrote:

> 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.

perhaps it's time for a new CD drive?

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.

-Steve