[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Nick Sabalausky]

"retard" <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote in message 
news:i68qac$7l0$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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.

Weird. 'Nothing else matters' is such a depressing-sounding song, I still 
can't imagine any grandmothers liking it. (But then who am I to talk? My 
granda's in her 80's, drives a Celica, and is the only person in my family 
to own an HDTV.)