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"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
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?"
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?"
It's rumored that a Taiwanese company has been secretly
developing a 12 inch wide, turntable -driven,
needle-based, firewire drive. It would appear that the
music industry may, at last, have found the pirate-proof
format it has long been searching for."
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
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?"
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?"
It's rumored that a Taiwanese company has been secretly
developing a 12 inch wide, turntable -driven,
needle-based, firewire drive. It would appear that the
music industry may, at last, have found the pirate-proof
format it has long been searching for."
