"retard" <r...@tard.com.invalid> wrote in message news:i68qac$7l...@digitalmars.com... > Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:58:39 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > >> Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >>> FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the second disc) has some sort of >>> anti-copy distortion. You can actually see a pattern on the data side >>> of the disc. The result when you encode it via MP3 is some slight >>> distortion, even at 160kb/s. It's pretty bearable though. I would >>> expect that a bit-for-bit copy would not have any issues though. It's >>> not copy protection, it's ripping protection. >> >> Given that Metallica uses heavily distorted guitars anyway, who would >> notice? > > That particular album consists of covers, but in general Metallica also > has pretty calm ballads. Ever heard of 'Nothing else matters'? Even my > grandmother used to love it.
Weird. 'Nothing else matters' is such a depressing-sounding song, I still can't imagine any grandmothers liking it. (But then who am I to talk? My granda's in her 80's, drives a Celica, and is the only person in my family to own an HDTV.)