New iTunes DRM "report" prompts denial
updated 02:15 pm EST, Tue November 8, 2005
iTunes DRM humor
SunnComm today , claims that SunnComm was working with its competitor Macrovision to develop new DRM technology. The presumably fictional new software was said to be keyed to Microsoft's Power Management technology, issuing forth a 125-volt "anti-p2p DRM charge" into the computer chassis when users attempt to play unauthorized iTunes tracks. The column also says that starting December 1st, all iTunes downloads will carry a new kind of Fair Play DRM, a direct negative feedback 'watermark' recognized by Fair Play earbuds that instructs the headphones to emit a piercing, high-pitched scream in stereo at 250 decibels when an iPod user attempts to play an iTunes track not sanctioned by Organized Music (EMI Group, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music).
wow
11/08, 03:06pm reply
and this is news?
l008com
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uh
11/08, 03:12pm reply
not funny
porieux
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Sounds like a lawsuit
11/08, 04:56pm reply
Sounds like a lawsuit developing if this kind of DRM is implemented. Destroying a persons ears with a deafening 250dB sound would definately cost a company a lot of trouble. Destroying someones property would also cause a lot of trouble. That would be like putting a bomb in your car for an alarm system. If a person steals it then it blows up. I believe there is a booby trap law that prevents such extreme measures. It sounds like there needs to be such laws for the DRM as well.
jhorvatic
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How is this a news story?
11/08, 05:12pm reply
Or are you guys starting to publish non-news related articles as well?
t_hah
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This is news?
11/08, 05:50pm reply
THIS JUST IN AT RESPECTABLE NEWS SOURCE "THE ONION..."
jrbm689
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Jeebus y'all are gullibl
11/08, 06:01pm reply
nuff said
zac4mac
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120V DRM?
11/08, 08:44pm reply
Suckers! It's fake!
Eriamjh
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Impossible
11/08, 10:34pm reply
On a different article at Slashdot, someone pointed out that the loudest sound possible is just under 200dB because at that point the sound pressure extent is already a vacuum. So this 250dB report is a dead giveaway that it's bogus.
corsair
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re: impossible
11/09, 10:03am reply
You needed a geeky Slashdot explanation about sound pressure and vacuums to know this was fake??
With the shocking, and the screaming, and the stealing of music, and my eardrums are shredded to glavin!
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