RIAA found a way to stop CDs being purated with new format.

RIAA BREAKTHROUGH -- Music Industry Unveils New Piracy-Proof Format: A Black, Plastic Disc With Grooves On It

Music bosses have unveiled a revolutionary new recording format that they hope will help win the war on illegal file sharing which is thought to be costing the industry millions of dollars in lost revenue.

Nicknamed the Record, the new format takes the form of a black, vinyl disc measuring 12 inches in diameter, which must be played on a specially designed turntable.

"We can state with absolute certainty that no computer in the world can access the data on this disc," said spokesman Brett Campbell. "We are also confident that no-one is going to be able to produce pirate copies in this format without going to a heck of a lot of trouble. This is without doubt the best anti-piracy invention the music industry has ever seen."

As part of the invention's rigorous testing process,the designers gave some discs to a group of teenage computer experts who regularly use file swapping software such as Limewire and gnutella and who admit to pirating music CDs.

Despite several days of trying, none of them were able to **** into the disc's code or access any of the music files contained within it.

"It's like, really big and stuff," said Doug Flamboise, one of the testers.

"I couldn't get it into any of my drives. I mean, what format is it? Is it, like, from France or something?"

Invention: Teenage computer hackers struggled to access the new disc.

In the new format, raw audio data in the form of music is encoded by physically etching grooves onto the vinyl disc. The sound is thus translated into variations on the disc's surface in a process that industry insiders are describing as completely revolutionary and stunningly clever.

To decode the data stored on the disc, the listener must use a special player which contains a needle that runs along the grooves on the record surface, reading the indentations and transforming the movements back into audio that can be fed through loudspeakers.

Even Shawn Fanning, the man who invented Napster, admits the new format will make file swapping much more difficult. "I've never seen anything like this," he told reporters. "How does it work?"

Pirates: Their days are numbered.

As rumours that a Taiwanese company has been secretly developing a 12 inch wide, turntable -driven, needle-based, firewire drive remain unconfirmed, it would appear that the music industry may, at last, have found the pirate-proof format it has long been searching for.

RIAA found a way to stop CDs being purated with new format.

Should have coated it in dog piss.

Why is 'hack' censored? :lol:

That's great, pirates will never crack it, old tech > new!!!

Oh wait...

ejazznews?

ejazznews!

The pirates have already found a way to copy the new format. They call it... get this.... no wait...

tape cassette!

Wahahahahahaha!

IRON NAN wrote:That's great, pirates will never crack it, old tech > new!!!

Oh wait...

*snip*

You don't even need that. Just a 1/4" to 3.5mm lead.

It's no fun destroying joke news.

There's a USB turntable just for recording vinyl? It had better have a bloody good ADC.

What's "purating"? Is it like puréeing?

Spam account? I'll go report it. x

What the strawberry float is Purated?

I assume its a typo, but all new technology will do is hinder the pirates, there is always ways of copywrite fraud.... its just so easy!

JiggerJay wrote:What the strawberry float is Purated?

I assume its a typo, but all new technology will do is hinder the pirates, there is always ways of copywrite fraud.... its just so easy!

Ehm.

Did you actually, you know, read the OP?

Or the rest of the thread for that matter?

Dandy Kong wrote:
JiggerJay wrote:What the **** is Purated?

I assume its a typo, but all new technology will do is hinder the pirates, there is always ways of copywrite fraud.... its just so easy!

Ehm.

Did you actually, you know, read the OP?

Or the rest of the thread for that matter?

I was waiting for some dougnut to post something like that.

:lol:

Shame it happened to the guy who talks slick gooseberry fool to me all the time.

:lol:

Dougnut.

I think I first heard this joke around 2001.

JiggerJay wrote::fp:

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

JiggerJay wrote:What the strawberry float is Purated?

I assume its a typo, but all new technology will do is hinder the pirates, there is always ways of copywrite fraud.... its just so easy!

Hang on, Jigger is having a go at someone for a spelling mistake?

bear wrote:
JiggerJay wrote:What the strawberry float is Purated?

I assume its a typo, but all new technology will do is hinder the pirates, there is always ways of copywrite fraud.... its just so easy!

Hang on, Jigger is having a go at someone for a spelling mistake?

Yep, the irony! (I was going to put iorny, just to see if anyone noticed!)

Boo! wrote:I think I first heard this joke around 2001.

sure it wasn't before that?

RIAA found a way to stop CDs being purated with new format.

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