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- Plub, on 01/12/2008, -5/+144That's almost insane which ways the music industry goes to destroy the musicians hard work.
- DefaultGen, on 01/12/2008, -2/+131Dear god, we'll have to wait till the CD is released before we can pirate it?
- omghax, on 01/12/2008, -1/+110Reminds me of when I use to download songs and always get the horrible version of it with a "DJ's" voice echoing over it.
Good times. - garionw, on 01/12/2008, -9/+113only more of a reason to pirate
- bawpcwpn, on 01/12/2008, -4/+101The Australian Chaser boys would be great for doing on a sketch on this. They could go up to members of the RIAA while they are talking and interrupt them with a voice-over every couple of minutes.
- Xerces, on 01/12/2008, -2/+47I don't understand why people still resort to record companies
- JoelBakan01, on 01/12/2008, -3/+48This is a great idea. It will keep people from hearing ***** music.
- inactive, on 01/12/2008, -3/+46No. Good music tracks are like a recipe. You can add all you want, but you can't take anything out. (Unless you have the source files)
- Sabretou, on 01/12/2008, -2/+35I don't think 50 Cent got his electricity cut recently.
- dinostabOMG, on 01/12/2008, -1/+33Wait - you can add whatever you want to any good recipe? Because... I sure do like anchovies.
- Ahnteis, on 01/12/2008, -5/+36Yeah, this just prevents effective reviewing.
- pands, on 01/12/2008, -0/+28DJ HIOOOOOOOOOOO IN THE MIX. HEAR THE BASS?! BASS BASS BASS BASS R U READY 2 PARRRTYY
- monkeyvoodoo, on 01/12/2008, -2/+27***** THE ANCHOVIES!!!
- lcarsdeveloper, on 01/12/2008, -0/+23While I think that would be great to watch, they can only really go after Australians (unless they send Charles Firth). And it wouldn't work if they did it to ARIA (Australia's RIAA equivalent). It's a pity there is no American equivalent to the Chaser, although perhaps Jon Stewart could send one of his reporters out there to interview someone from RIAA about it?
- jerryterhorst, on 01/12/2008, -4/+25not positive, but i believe it is something like this: the song fades out and a guy comes on and tells you that is it illegal to pirate this music and it is for promotional purposes only. the music then fades back in. imagine hearing this during one of your favorite songs and you can see why it could ruin the mood a little bit... example after the jump.
"If you don't know the things you're dealing,
I can tell you, darling, that it's Sexual Hea--"
"WARNING DO NOT PIRATE THIS MUSIC UNDER PENALTY OF CASTRATION"
"What the f---" - tendonut, on 01/12/2008, -0/+21"Can you take out the noise in this distorted telephone conversation we are listening to?"
"Oh sure, let me just turn off the 'noise' track" - aussieNickuss, on 01/12/2008, -3/+23No matter what anybody tries to do to stop piracy.....there is always going to be a way around it. Why don't they just give up!?
- banmaster, on 01/12/2008, -5/+24Don't the music/movie industry get it yet, that the more stupid asinine restrictions they place on legal music the more people will chose the illegal version because its less restrictive and offensive to them?
- austinnowlin, on 01/12/2008, -19/+36Couldn't you edit out the voice over?
Oh, and ***** THE RIAA! - lcarsdeveloper, on 01/12/2008, -0/+15No, that's not what I'm saying, they make fun of Americans all the time. I'm saying the Chaser team is not going to fly to the USA to make fun of the RIAA in a 2 minute sketch that many Australians wouldn't understand anyway.
- CaptainAO, on 01/12/2008, -1/+15I downloaded a leaked promo of Hot Chip's new album that had the voice over repeated on every song, very annoying indeed. In the end though, it's not going to stop people from pirating, they'll just wait for the retail rips.
- LuckyASN, on 01/12/2008, -0/+14dj clue was the worst
- kindrobot, on 01/12/2008, -0/+14Just have the girl with the glasses step over to a computer, press a few magic keys and remove it. That's how they do it in the movies. Well, usually it's a guy with glasses who at some other point in the movie reveals himself to be a sex-starved pervert for laughs.
- adooga, on 01/12/2008, -4/+18All of you whinging about not being able to pirate this stuff, please remember we're talking about music that HASN'T EVEN BEEN RELEASED YET.
It's up to the artist and their representatives to decide when the work goes public, nobody else.
Oh yeah, ***** the riaa (as if they matter any more) - PathDaemon, on 01/12/2008, -1/+14Cuz record companies make records. Also do extensive marketing, get you on TV, set up production, etc.
You have to have balls to go without one (thankfully many artists are known for having balls). - Adamande, on 01/12/2008, -2/+15I disagree. If I were a musician I would be furious to see my album released to critics with all my songs chopped up and partly erased. It's the record labels that are ***** with the artists. What kind of reviews do you think they should be expecting?
- adooga, on 01/12/2008, -0/+13What makes you think Australians can't make fun of Americans?
- PathDaemon, on 01/12/2008, -0/+12The voiceovers are like having giant black text appear in the middle of the frame in a video every few minutes — the audio that was there is no longer. Even with banmaster's method, the result would sound rather ***** and obvious.
- Kahlzarg, on 01/12/2008, -1/+12They deserve a vast percentage of whatever people are willing to pay for it. If someone makes a crappy song and it makes 5 million dollars in sales because people buy it, the money is already there, and they are more entitled to that 5 million than a record company suit behind a desk.
Sure it sucks they get more money than a Person who is curing cancer, but that doesn't mean that they should be penalized because people find buying music for their ipod more important than support cancer research. Chances are 99% of people spend more money on music than curing cancer, with the exceptions being those that justify downloading free mp3's. - inactive, on 01/12/2008, -9/+20I gotta say I dont have a problem with this. Its done on preview CDs that are sent to reviewers before the CD itself is released. So it is an effective way to prevent the song from getting out early.
There is no way to say this kind of thing prevents legit use of the songs. DRM sucks because it limits fair use, but thats not the case with this. - monkeyvoodoo, on 01/12/2008, -3/+14After ... the jump.
Because ... There's a full-monitor's worth of vertical space in your comment, after which the example can be seen...
*sigh* - coldfusion1970, on 01/12/2008, -4/+14Idiot. This is copy protection on pre-release REVIEW CDs given to journalists. Not copy protection on CDs you buy in the shops.
- maexus, on 01/12/2008, -2/+12Singing a song? Maybe not. However, when you sing, write, perform, produce, mix, master your tracks, you should get paid for it.
- diggymow, on 01/12/2008, -6/+15Giving it a bad review score is just unprofessional, refusing to review it until after it was released would've made sense he's just ***** with the artist to get to the record company.
- theholyraptor, on 04/07/2008, -0/+9"Good music". Actually any music once mastered down to a two track stereo recording can not have individual parts removed without altering everything else unless for some odd reason each track had separate content.
- Vinterblod, on 01/12/2008, -0/+9I review albums for the rather big site The Metal Observer (http://www.metal-observer.com/), and through my work I have encountered these voice-overs. Personally, I feel it disrupts the entire flow of the music, and I know that many other reviewers (and the artists themselves) agree with me. When you have to hear "You are listening to the new Type O Negative album, Dead Again" every other minute, it starts to become extremely intrusive and agitating. In addition to this, some record companies have resorted to splitting all their releases into 99 fragmented tracks, which is a huge pain for reviewers who receive their promos online, especially if these tracks are subjected to crossfading or other transitional effects. As reviewers, the best thing we can do is comment on how this reduces the listening experience in our reviews, so that maybe one day the labels will realize that their "solution" creates more problems than it solves.
- motters, on 01/12/2008, -1/+9Seems like a bad idea to me. A better idea for reviewing purposes would just be to release the music in a lower quality format - similar to listening to it on a radio.
- themoose, on 01/12/2008, -0/+8Shoplifting or any other type of theft != copyright infringement
- banmaster, on 01/12/2008, -4/+12So treating EVERY ONE of your fans and supporters like a criminal is a good way to encourage people to buy your content?
Sorry, but that just doesn't wash! - Kier, on 01/12/2008, -2/+9I've only heard this once and it was done fine. The track "Nerve" by Soilwork. Anyone who's heard the song knows that there's a short bar or 2 right between the solo and the final chorus and outro. In that spot a female voice comes and says "You're listening to the song "Nerve" from Soilwork's upcoming album, "Stabbing the Drama". The chorus comes up and the voice goes. Of course, the real thing is much much better.
***** the RIAA. - jon02129, on 01/12/2008, -0/+7I took it as a joke. If its not, I agree with you.
- banmaster, on 01/12/2008, -1/+8If you have the CLEAN source files of the announcements you could do the old 'invert the waveform then add it to the exact spot in the music where the announcement occurs" but with copy protected tracks being available only
- ageedoy, on 01/12/2008, -0/+7DESERT STORM!
- funklor, on 01/12/2008, -1/+7Hey, I'm fine with this. It's better than DRM, and a lot more effective -- at least until the album is released. The only people that have a right to complain are the reviewers, because they're the only ones that should be listening to it.
- khedoros, on 07/31/2009, -0/+6But then you're still probably losing some of the precision of the original music, especially if the volume is lowered when the voice over comes on.
- aliguana, on 01/12/2008, -0/+6You can't (if you have any concept of reality) stop something being copied when it hits the shelves. What they're trying to do here is stop "scene releases", which often hit the p2p networks months (not weeks) before the record comes out. We all know these leaks come from preview releases.
On the other hand, as someone who was a cd reviewer for a magazine in a former life, I wouldn't listen to 20 albums with voice-overs. As soon as the VO kicked in, the cd would be ejected. Feck that. - W1LS0N, on 01/12/2008, -0/+6its only on the promotional copies that get sent out to journalists though. i dont see what the big deal is. i listen to a lot of electronic mix albums and used to be in a position to get promos - they all have something like the name of the album and 'promotional copy' in a voiceover in between each track.
ok, threee times in a track is extreme, but this isnt anything new. - actorboy, on 01/12/2008, -0/+6Actually, I was asking myself why you would pirate the music of obscure artists rather than put money in their pockets so they could afford to keep creating.
By the way, humans need to eat. Just because someone is passionate about what they do does not mean they prefer doing it poor and hungry. - zeblith, on 01/12/2008, -0/+6No, good music is LIKE a recipe. Not a -good- recipe.
- inactive, on 01/12/2008, -1/+7Actually, it's called hunting and gathering.
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