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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).

 
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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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