[Dixielandjazz] Planning on Doing a CD?

[Robert S. Ringwald]

You might want to rethink any CD plans. This sounds hot hot hot!
 
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RIAA BREAKTHROUGH
 
Music Industry Unveils New Piracy-Proof Format:
A Black, Plastic Disc With Grooves In It
 
Music bosses have unveiled a revolutionary new recording format 
that they hope will help win the war on illegal file sharing, 
which is thought to be costing the industry millions of dollars 
in lost revenue.
 
Nicknamed the "Record," the new format takes the form of a black, 
vinyl disc measuring 12" in diameter, which must be played on a 
specially designed turntable.
 
"We can state with absolute certainty that no computer in the 
world can access the data on this disc," said spokesman Brett 
Campbell. "We are also confident that no one is going to be able 
to produce pirate copies in this format without going to a heck 
of a lot of trouble. This is without doubt the best anti-piracy 
invention the music industry has ever seen."
 
As part of the invention's rigorous testing process, the 
designers gave some discs to a group of teenage computer experts 
who regularly use file-swapping software such as Limewire and 
Gnutella and who admit to pirating music CDs.
 
Despite several days of trying, none of them were able to hack 
into the disc's code or access any of the music files contained 
within it.
 
"It's like, really big and stuff," said Doug Flamboise, one of 
the testers. "I couldn't get it into  any of my drives. I mean, 
what format is it? Is it, like, from France or something?"
 
In the new format, raw audio data in the form of music is encoded 
by physically etching grooves onto the vinyl disc. The sound is 
thus translated into variations on the disc's surface in a 
process that industry insiders are describing as "completely 
revolutionary" and "stunningly clever."
 
To decode the data stored on the disc, the listener must use a 
special player which contains a "needle" that runs along the 
grooves on the record surface, reading the indentations and 
transforming the movements back into audio that can be fed 
through externally amplified loudspeakers.
 
Even Shawn Fanning, the man who invented Napster, admits the new 
format will make file swapping much more difficult. "I've never 
seen anything like this," he told reporters. "How does it work?"
 
As rumors that a Taiwanese company has been secretly developing a 
12" wide, turntable-driven,  needle-based, firewire drive remain 
unconfirmed, it would appear that the music industry may, at 
last, have found the pirate-proof format it has long been 
searching for.