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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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  1. l008com

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    11/08, 03:06pm | report spam | Reply |

    wow

    and this is news?

  1. porieux

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    11/08, 03:12pm | report spam | Reply |

    uh

    not funny

  1. jhorvatic

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    11/08, 04:56pm | report spam | Reply |

    Sounds like a lawsuit

    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.

  1. t_hah

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    11/08, 05:12pm | report spam | Reply |

    How is this a news story?

    Or are you guys starting to publish non-news related articles as well?

  1. jrbm689

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    11/08, 05:50pm | report spam | Reply |

    This is news?

    THIS JUST IN AT RESPECTABLE NEWS SOURCE "THE ONION..."

  1. zac4mac

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    11/08, 06:01pm | report spam | Reply |

    Jeebus y'all are gullibl

    nuff said

  1. Eriamjh

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    11/08, 08:44pm | report spam | Reply |

    120V DRM?

    Suckers! It's fake!

  1. corsair

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    11/08, 10:34pm | report spam | Reply |

    Impossible

    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.

  1. beverson

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    11/09, 10:03am | report spam | Reply |

    re: impossible

    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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