Re: SunnComm new CD mangling technology.

Jim Peters <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.law.eucd.ukcdr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Henry Gomersall wrote:
> If I wanted to protect music from reencoding, this is how I would do it.
> The net result is something pretty useless. I certainly wouldn't buy a
> CD I couldn't rip and encode (and it wouldn't be to share). If I buy a
> CD, I want a 16bit 44kHz PCM representation of the original master, not
> after a version that has been through a psycho-acoustic mangler.

The truth is that they hate the CD format.  They just want to degrade
it and degrade it until people are forced to buy an SACD or DVD in
order to have a decent version of the audio -- even though 44.1kHz
16-bit stereo would otherwise keep us all happy for decades to come.

Jim

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