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| Thread ID: 102349 | 2009-08-16 08:32:00 | Where's The DRMs Anyway! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 801622 | 2009-08-16 08:32:00 | Just for fun I ran a CD through my WMP10 and at the same time, saved it to Audacity. It's an old song from the '50s, 'way before DRMs and stuff. I had a downloaded version (paid-for) of the same music cut and ran it also through Audacity. I time-matched them and they are the same length but the downloaded version has a lot of extra little - how can I say it? - "bumps and flats" in the histogram. I can scroll through both versions at the same time and mostly they are pretty identical - but there's some "extra" stuff that I believe is DRM or codec-added stuff. I opened the time factor and can see just 0:00:001 seconds on a full screen and there's "something" there alright! Whatever it is - is very small. Morse code maybe? The timing is all over the boards though. Not sequential in the slightest that I can see. Is this where they are? Any thoughts? |
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| 801623 | 2009-08-17 07:51:00 | I tried this, but unfortunately I can't read music. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 801624 | 2009-08-17 08:56:00 | It could be an audio 'fingerprint'. A while ago I read up on something like this, it was meant so that data could be tracked, for things like tracking down pirates, etc. | ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 801625 | 2009-08-17 10:30:00 | if they could get away from this wimpy DRM, the pirates would lose their arm when they grasped the pirated explosive media. I look forward to them testing it on the Media Moguls. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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