They would actually have to force us all to have coclier implants in the inner ear that could shut down our hearing if perhaps a subaudible signal that would "unlock" the music is missing. So, pirate mp3s and they'll pull a switch to take away your hearing for the rest of your life. On 2 Jul 2003, Taybin wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:06, Jan Depner wrote: > > Just had to put my 2 cents in here. So, I go and buy the CD - it won't > > rip or play on my computer - I slap it in my decent CD player (with > > analog outs to my DSP2000) - I record it at 16/44.1 - I encode it in ogg > > - I post that on the web somewhere. Now, question for the student, how > > much worse is my ogg copy than a ripped and encoded ogg copy? If you're > > willing to settle for mp3 then this is just as acceptable and it can't > > be stopped. From what I gather from most of my reading up on sound > > cards, most of them go from digital to analog and then back when you rip > > anyway. Is the connection from your cd player to your sound card > > digital? It is on my system but I don't think it is on most of the > > cheaper ones. > > This is what the RIAA refers to as the "analog hole". They're looking > for ways to stop you from doing just that. It's not technically > possible since it has to be converted to analog at some point so we can > actually hear it. Thus all the legislation we've been having thrown > around. > > Taybin > >
