http://www.dataplay.com

http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/en/news/index.jsp

The most informative (single) article is probably this one, although it takes a lot more reading to really get the big picture:

http://www.bcbr.com/display.phtml?VI=P2110...on=News&Page=33

Apparently the record companies are gonna try & transition away from the CD, to *this* crap. Encoded at 192kbps (which they're predictably calling "CD quality") using lord-knows-what proprietary codec and (of course) heavy DRM.

Thank goodness I don't go for much newer music anymore.

> "Our technology works on the source code and it cloaks that source code so > that the hacker can't find out what's going on," said Cloakware's Steve
> Langford.

Sorry, but that sounds like total nonsense to me. ;-)

How can they even think a 192kbit lossy format can replace Audio CD? Hehe, very funny.

Cloaking source code? So it does compile everytime it runs? ROTFL!!!

Dunno, but here's what it uses:

http://www.cloakware.com/main.html

P.S... don't forget that the "cracking" of CSS was entirely accidental.

Yes, but the encryption is weak, to comply with the American cryptography exporting laws. (48bits, IIRC)

So, nothing that a good round of cryptoanalysis wouldn't break.

Regards;

Roberto.

Encryption doesn't concern me so much as the possibility (from what I can determine, not that likely but not remote either) that this format could eventually supplant the compact disc.

The "average listener" won't mind some lossy codec at 192kbps, they probably wouldn't notice any difference between that and a CD. But what about the rest of us?

Believe me, the record companies won't mind sacrificing sound quality in order to get "control" back of their copyrights, as long as the large majority of CD buyers don't mind.

Have they lost their wits :confused:

I can't see the advantage of using this over Sony's Minidisc, the minidisc is even erasable and unprotected.... so what's the point in this new format ?

Multimedia ? Look at CD-I ! You don't know what it is ? It was the same thing on CD, and people were so indifferent about having the three pictures of the sleeve viewed on TV at a lower quality, and the text of the sleeve visible on computer, that nobody remember the name itself of that born dead standard.

I don't understand... how do they expect it to overcome both SACD, DVD, and MP3 players, while it doesn't even offers what minidisc already offers ?

Strong copy protection, a feeling of total control... what else could a record company executive ever want?

Marketing, marketing, marketing. Plus, I'm sure they're counting on the "gee whiz" factor of a disc the size of a U.S. quarter.

I think it probably won't overtake the other formats, but anything's possible if somebody throws enough money at it.

I won't :rant:

Want to know who did (so far)?

http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/en/company/partner.jsp

:jawdrop: