Originally Posted by Dampier

Unfortunately, the forums are well monitored. The Virgin Virtuosa loophole close was done within 48 hours of it being posted on the most closely monitored blog - kordix. The music industry uses some forums to have notice that there is a security gap, and then reverse engineer it based on the messages posted.

Unfortunately, there's no easy way around this without some sort of private forum, and even then how do you know who should get in. It's just as easy to have someone pretend to be friendly to the cause who actually works for one of these services.

I suppose letting the cat out of the bag is unavoidable, but we shouldn't taunt the cat either.

BTW, xfuzion asked me about track volume varying. A quick example is the recently posted Verve Mixed album touted on the home page of Napster et al. If you can view the waveforms, you'll see volume all over the place. The normalization method they are using isn't irritating when you stream or play the original .wma file. But convert it to something else, especially using a tool that attempts to playback the file and then record it and/or re-normalize it, and you'll discover distortion on several tracks because of oversaturated signal levels. It becomes an effort to have to analyze and adjust playback volume for different tracks to have a satisfactory result.

Originally Posted by shadowfaxframe

We need to think of a way to talk in code. seriously. like, we could use the code and the riaa would think we were just rambling for no reason. Of course, we will have to find a way to weed out the imposters who want copies of the code.