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Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« on: December 17, 2002, 09:14:56 AM »
 "Ever feel like not being a marketing statistic? Well just by playing certain store-bought compact discs in your home or office computer, your new music disc may be transmitting your listening habits in real time to the respective record company...." Charming. Read on for more...

Source http://slashdot.org/



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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2002, 09:40:30 AM »
Very interesting new idea, what are they going to advertise on the box "Bonus Spyware included" or "Pirate me quickly"  ;-)
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2002, 09:41:11 AM »
Thats ok, it will no doubt be programmed for Windows or Mac, it won't runn on the Amiga ;-)
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2002, 10:45:10 AM »
Oh no! Record companies might be able to figure out that 85% of people who like Soil also listen to Stone Sour!

Who really cares? its not like they're harvesting really personal information that could be used against you.
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2002, 12:14:27 PM »
@ Tickly

How do you know that?
 :-o  :-o  :-o
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2002, 12:22:58 PM »
Muahahahaha! I actually run a massive international conglomerate called "Tickly, Inc". We are a secretive company, but we actually own Microsoft, all the major record and film companies, and all the commercial radio and TV stations in the world. You are ALL running my spyware! I KNOW EVERYTHING!  :-D

Errr... or not...

As Vic Reeves once said "88.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot"
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2002, 12:50:29 PM »
If I had the money I'd sue them for unuathorised usage of cpu cycles, and therefore electricity.
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2002, 12:53:40 PM »
Hehehe.. sue them for mental anguish caused by big-brother style paranoia generated by the presence of spyware on your system, too. Claim you can no longer sleep, and concentrating on your work is very difficult.
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2002, 01:16:06 PM »
IMO it's rather frightening what companies are trying to get away with regards to invasion of privacy. It's even more frightening how many people take the attitude "Who cares" or "If I don't notice it, it doesnt affect me". People really should educate themselves about what is going on in their very own home.

Could you imagine the outrage if it was discovered in the 1970s that the (mandatory) cable boxes provided by and owned by the cable company had hidden cameras that permitted the cable company to monitored you 24/7? Or if the mandatory telephones(in the US) of <1970s provided by Ma Bell included a bug device for marketers to easedrop on all your phone conversations? But since it's a computer, and the general public hardly knows where the ON button is, it's ok.

Pathetic. :-x
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2002, 01:21:10 PM »
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Thats ok, it will no doubt be programmed for Windows or Mac, it won't runn on the Amiga


If the RIAA has their way, you wont even be able to play the CD at all on your Amiga, or Linux etc.
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2002, 02:06:45 PM »
Don't you just love spyware?  How about the RIAA?  GEESH!!
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2002, 02:19:43 PM »
@ red
Cameras in the cable boxes?
WTH are you rambling about?!? :-)
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2002, 02:20:19 PM »
@ Tickly
I knew it!!! :-o

You won't succeed!
VIVA LA RESISTANCE!
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2002, 03:51:16 PM »
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WTH are you rambling about?!?


Invasion of privacy. I'm comparing an obvious REAL ivasion of privacy in modern day, with fictional invasion of privacy from years past. The real is no better than the fictional just because it is higher tech.
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Re: Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2002, 03:51:45 PM »
Anyone that does this sort of #### or installs spyware on peoples machines then they deserve to have their products pirated the hell out of them but who really cares as people (especially the amiga community) love to turn a blind eye),

Look at how many die hards hero worship Elbox, which says it all.
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