[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Daniel Gibson]

Steven Schveighoffer schrieb:
> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:12:37 -0400, Walter Bright 
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> 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).
>>
>>
>> Back in the 80's, it wasn't unusual for a compiler vendor to release a 
>> "student" version or some such, that was missing a feature like 
>> floating point. The problem, though, was that the compiler would earn 
>> a reputation as not having floating point and people would turn 
>> elsewhere when they would want to buy a professional compiler.
>>
>> In introducing such subtle distortion, Metallica runs the risk of 
>> being labeled a band with lousy sound.
> 
> Note that the sound is fine if you are playing the CD, it's if you rip 
> the tracks to MP3s when the sound degrades.
> 
> BTW, I think they abandoned this, the Death Magnetic album does not have 
> this protection.
> 
> -Steve

The Death Magnetic album had crappy sound anyway, according to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Magnetic#Criticism_regarding_production
(But not because of the copy protection but because of the 
aforementioned loudness war).