 vulpesAgent Smith
join:2002-09-13
Broomfield, CO | Not a solution You can cut the cord in half, and wire it to the jack, then copy it  That wont stop it from being early on p2p networks. |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by vulpes:
You can cut the cord in half, and wire it to the jack, then copy it
This is special cable... its BX-steel-armored cable for the headphones hehehe.
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haha what a waste of walkman's. |
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vulpesAgent Smith
join:2002-09-13
Broomfield, CO | reply to pnh102
Haha, they also probably force you in the 10 by 10 by 10 metal cube where all you have is that walkman and set of headphones with a bx-steel-armored cable. |
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| Why do you guys think that the intent is to keep the CD in the walkman?
The intent is to get the walkmans back. If they encounter a tampered one then the moron that returned it doesn't get any new prerelease material anymore.
They can seal these up pretty good and make it obvious that it was tampered with.
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 Noz9
join:2002-09-11
Edison, NJ | reply to Gauge5577$
RIAA must be really desperate now to try and stop people with glue. XD You know what this really does? Make people not buy and just download them so they can avoid the BS. Then the RIAA will whine about dwindling sales. LOL
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JPCass
join:2001-01-23
Denver, CO | reply to vulpes
This seems like the perfect application for a cheap, at least partly proprietary player - say, with integrally attached nonremovable headphones - such as or similar to a MP3 player, thus not needing an expensive mechanism. Heck, such a thing could be made with the intent that it could be passed on to a few people which would help create "buzz" about a new song. Such a player could also be designed with a download-only USB port, allowing them to be re-loaded and re-used. But anything like that starts to sound way too smart for the troglodites in the recording industry. That they resort to kludges like crazy gluing relatively large and expensive pieces of machinery that are basically pre-personal-computer age devices dating back several decades, says volumes about the industry.
And yeah, all of the recording industry's attempts at proprietary technologies look pretty dumb and short-sighted. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to vulpes
It's from the same company that made those tape recorders for the Agents in "Mission Impossible." It will self destruct in 10 seconds if you tamper with it.
MAN. What a moron! (the guy who 'thought up' the glued shut walkmans.... ) |
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 SpatchStugotsPremium
join:2001-06-29
Savannah, GA | reply to vulpes
Dammit, when are thes friggin' idiots gonna get it through their thick skulls. You can't stop it. Take the money you were gonna spend on all these useless copy protection schemes and "Go Buy A Clue!"
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People People People!!! These glued players are NOT being sold to the public. It's what they give music reviewers so they can review albums that haven't even released yet. That's all. Jeez... I think a lot of you are freaking out over nothing. Not everything the record industry does is about taking away your fair use rights.
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| said by SRFireside:
People People People!!! These glued players are NOT being sold to the public. It's what they give music reviewers so they can review albums that haven't even released yet. That's all. Jeez... I think a lot of you are freaking out over nothing. Not everything the record industry does is about taking away your fair use rights.
I realize that, and I'm not freaking out at all. I'm laughing my ass off! |
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Does anyone remember the first home modems!! THe ones from the early 1980's like the one shown in the movie war games. I mean if those worked well enough for computer why couldn't one be hooked up for headphones!!! just a thought |
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| The audio signal from a CD player and the data signal from a modem are two totally different animals. Have you heard a modem work? Lots of static noises to us, but very coherent communication for the modem. It would be just the reverse. CD audio sounds all fine and dandy, but the modem would only hear it as garbage. Even if you get one of those old old modems that could hear the signal there is no way to receive that info well enough. Besides it's all a moot point anyway as you won't be seeing any of these glued up players offered to the public.
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said by MrHalloween:
Does anyone remember the first home modems!! THe ones from the early 1980's like the one shown in the movie war games. I mean if those worked well enough for computer why couldn't one be hooked up for headphones!!! just a thought
Because
A modem takes a analog signal and converts it to digital.
Thats a great idea, but the sound that comes from the headphones is an analog signal only, and it pretty much sucks. Cable to cable, or usb outs is pretty much what people would want to go with.
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Two words: Home Depot, and get a pair of Ideal BX cable cutters. |
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They can take their walkmans and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.............. |
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