It has been awhile since I last updated. Anyways, I been too busy working to have any real fun. About the most interesting thing that happened to me lately involved me going to my nearest Best Buy to purchase a copy of Life of Agony's new album. This attempt at fun proved futile thanks to SONY's new copyright protection. This new "lame" idea SONY has is that they will sell you something that pretends to be an audio CD. As soon as you drop it in your computer it wants you to agree to a EULA that basically makes sure that you rent the CD instead of buying it. It only allows to to burn the CD 5 times and you can only rip it to a SHITTY .wma (128kbps) format. FUCK YOU SONY. I called my Best Buy and told them I wanted my money back. Of course, they used that lame excuse that it is against store policy . . blah blah blah. Needless to say I can be pretty persuasive and while they wouldn't take it back, they gave me a $10 Best Buy gift card, which covered the price of the CD. Best part is I managed to get my hands on decent mp3 versions encoded at much higher than 128kbps, and I still got to keep the CD. Amazing how a black sharpie can effect the data side of a CD.
btw, the CD rocks. It was worth the wait. Not the frustration. Once again SONY, if you didn't hear me the first time, GO FUCK YOURSELF.
It is really amazing how compaines try to manipulate their consumers into thinking they are getting something they're not.
Just think about it for a second. Audio CD's have been around since the mid 80's. While recording styles have changed from analog to digital, all tracks on CD's are 1411kbps and are technically .wav files. SONY's new scam is to sell you an "audio CD" with .wma files encoded at 128 kps. Not to mention that the wma files limit how many times to can copy a CD that you have bought. Personally, if the encoding rate is one-tenth the rate of a real "audio CD," the cost should be the same. If someone is violating US copyright laws, you need to look for farther than SONY itself as apparently they figure that they can make up rules and answer to no one.
The copy protection program is referred to as XCP and was developed by the folks here.
XCP - the true meaning of audio security
What a scam!
Did I mention that the album rocks.
btw, the CD rocks. It was worth the wait. Not the frustration. Once again SONY, if you didn't hear me the first time, GO FUCK YOURSELF.
It is really amazing how compaines try to manipulate their consumers into thinking they are getting something they're not.
Just think about it for a second. Audio CD's have been around since the mid 80's. While recording styles have changed from analog to digital, all tracks on CD's are 1411kbps and are technically .wav files. SONY's new scam is to sell you an "audio CD" with .wma files encoded at 128 kps. Not to mention that the wma files limit how many times to can copy a CD that you have bought. Personally, if the encoding rate is one-tenth the rate of a real "audio CD," the cost should be the same. If someone is violating US copyright laws, you need to look for farther than SONY itself as apparently they figure that they can make up rules and answer to no one.
The copy protection program is referred to as XCP and was developed by the folks here.
XCP - the true meaning of audio security
What a scam!
Did I mention that the album rocks.