[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Walter Bright]

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?