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The biggest piracy threat to the music industry is my sound card. I can record any sound that comes out of the speakers.
by foxfired 8y ago
The biggest piracy threat to the music industry is my sound card. I can record any sound that comes out of the speakers.
- Krasnol 8y agoDon't say it too loud or they'll replace your ports with some fancy DRM safe stuff.
- fasafsaf3 8y agoLike they did with HDMI?
- jordigh 8y agoWait, what? There's DRM in HDMI? Bloody hell! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content... Stop protecting bytes from being copied!
- jazzyjackson 8y agoWhich of course is added complexity and a source of incompatibility between playback devices and screens. Can't count the number of times in the early years of HDMI that I couldn't play a DVD because my projector didn't support it. On the other hand, the pirated copy still worked great.
- cududa 8y agoHDCP my dude. Take a jog up history
- Krasnol 8y agoWasn't there something about UBS-C too?
- giancarlostoro 8y agoI mean if you can hear it on your PC you can record it regardless with plenty of free open source software.
- sandworm101 8y agoSo you don't think it possible for an inaudible DRM scheme to be embedded into the music? Perhaps a signal to any digital recorders? I wouldn't put it past Apple to forbid one Apple product from recording anything broadcast by another. This is already a thing in another medium: money. Digital printers, and some software packages, are trained to identify embedded signals to disrupt attempt to scan/print paper currency.
- PhantomGremlin 8y agoSo you don't think it possible for an inaudible DRM scheme to be embedded into the music? This exists commercially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia I don't know if it's truly "inaudible", maybe some experts can detect it? But probably 99% of people can't.
- lozf 8y agoThere are cases where "inaudible" watermarks in paid audio downloads are actually audible[0], meaning that buying the FLAC download gives a worse experience than a properly ripped CD. [0]: https://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark https://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermar...