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Study Details New Method to Identify Bootleg CDs

Posted 12/09/08 at 04:02:36 PM  by Andy Salisbury

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The Department of Optics at the University of Granada has recently revealed a new technique that provides the means to identify the difference between a bootlegged CD and one made industrially (other than checking if the top has “Workout Mix” written in Sharpie).

At a base level, they’re simply checking out the light diffraction from the surface of the CD. Ideally, it’ll be noticeably different between a CD made at home and made at the factory. In fact they’re so confident with the process, they’ve filed for a patent.

Sadly, they’re a bit late. For many of us, the CD boat has sailed and this technology is generations behind. But, there might be some of you out there that still prefer your music in disc form, and to that I say kudos.

 

 Image Credit: auntnanny on Flickr

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TAGS: CD, Bootleg, pirate, University of Granada
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avatarWhy CD's?

Submitted by thegamepro on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 3:20pm

I generally prefer to buy cd's rather than a download because of the quality and that there is no DRM.  Now the downloading services are starting to phase out drm and the quality is starting to improve so i've already moved to downloads.

However I really do beleive that retail for entertainment media such a movies, music, games, etc.  will become obsolete within the comming years from digital downloads.  I buy all of my PC games from steam (when they are available), I download my movies through my netflix on my xbox, and I prefer to buy my music on amazon.com.  RETAIL IS DEAD... unless they can make money off of just hardware but they better do something fast before they go out of business.   

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avatarCopyright Police FAIL again...

Submitted by Sovereign on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 3:16pm

...because there are many places *cough iTunes Amazon eMusic cough* where MP3 files can be purchased legally and may well be burned to CDs.  Those CDs would show up as "fake" too, would they not?

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avatarlol @ trying to stop people

Submitted by Mikhial66 on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 2:48pm

lol @ trying to stop people from burning CD's and well after every one has moved on, too.

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