Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:17:33 +0000, BCS wrote: > Hello domino, > >> Walter Bright Wrote: >> >>> domino wrote: >>> >>>> Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard >>>> movie/audio CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection. >>>> >>> CDs are not copy protected. >>> >> False. >> >> I have 10--20 discs with cactus data protection. Two with sony bmg >> rootkit protection system. And several with mediamax protection. At >> least the cactus shit is annoying. They corrupted the audio on purpose >> and it's audible even with a legal authentic cd audio player. If you >> place these discs in a standard PC cd/dvd drive, it just spins and >> spins and spins and spins and the OS either hangs or refuses to open >> the cd tray. I'm 100% sure you are not allowed to break these. >> >> > I've never owned a CD player that wasn't a CD-ROM drive. I've never come > across a disk I couldn't play.
You must be young then. I got my first CD-ROM drive with my Pentium 75. The first 1x external CD-ROM drives were pretty expensive. I think one used to cost around $600..800. Before 1994 I only had a CD walkman and a moderately cheap entry level hi-fi system. On top of that, the first CD-ROM drives provided ridiculously bad audio quality and connectivity. Also the 16-bit SB clones were trash.