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I would like to thank DJ MIXMAN for sending me this, I have never laughed so much until I read this wonderfull email he shared with myself
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 hack 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.
www.urbanreflex.com/may24_02/record.html
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