whether this supposed technology will actually work
whether the ‘explanations’ on the company website make a whole heap of sense
whether it should be what the recording industry is trying to achieve
how ‘fair’ it is to individual non-naughty consumers making ‘fair use’ copies
These things are not:
the company has a dumb name, and if the name is any reflection of their intelligence, wisdom and competence then their proprietary technology will very probably be able to suck the pattern off a carpet
if it DOES work, even a little bit, then at least 48 hours before they sell the first commercial license to use their system, the ‘hack’ which renders it obsolete will be available for free download on the internet
Their “technology” page claims that it’ll protect against “Ripping an MP3, WAV, WMA (etc) file from a CD-A”.
Either they don’t know the difference between lossless formats such as WAV and lossy formats such as MP3, or they’re full of it. Even if this scheme actually does introduce harmful artifacts in lossy compressed files, there’s no way it can affect a lossless WAV copy, or a lossless compressed copy like RAR or SHN.
That’s Macrovision. Macromedia is the company that sells Flash and Dreamweaver.
By definition, there can be no foolproof copy protection scheme because anything that can be run through a digital-to-analog converter and into your speakers can be digitally captured. But what really stinks is how the industry is trying to prevent all copying, without regard to that which falls under fair use. If I own a legally purchased record, cassette, or CD, then does that not entitle me to download those tracks via P2P?
Looks like ther’s plenty of ignorance to fight at Darknoise. :rolleyes: