The General RIAA advises: hearing MP3 is bad for hearing

[Mod]

I read this at slashdot, and wondered if RIAA could use this against MP3 users, as the general surgeon uses advises against smoking .

COMENTS FROM SLASHDOT :

zenst writes "A rather interesting read about possible damage to your hearing due to the way most audio compression techneques work. They mainly work by presenting a signal that the brain perceives to be the same as the original and it is this assumption that could effect our hearing and the way we hear."

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/2029212&mode=thread&tid=134

THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE:

http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logologie/MP3-Gefahr/MP3-risk.html

PS.: The author wrote this at the end of the article:

"I personally own mainly cheap CDs and phono records, but almost no downloaded MP3 musics."

[vampireuk]

/me chuckles

I bet RIAA paid a tonne of money for that "report" to be wrote:D

[ALobpreis]

"Most MP3 encoders add some harmonics that contain subliminal satanic messages"

Source: here (http://www.hehejustjoking.com/).

[serialdave]

I never heard any satanic mesages in mp3 files BUT if you stop the lp for ledZeplin stairway to heaven when the lyrics say "there's still time to chainge the road your on" and spin it backwards it will clearly say "here's to my sweet satan"

[UDawg]

I heard it will also make you go blind and give you hairy palms.

[PsychoSy]

Damn....I'm half way there! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Wait, you said blind and not bald...

My bad! :D :p

[The Baron]

Same effects as Yellow 5.

It shrinks your balls. :p

[UDawg]

Originally posted by PsychoSy
Damn....I'm half way there! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Wait, you said blind and not bald...

My bad! :D :p



ewww:eek:

[Kruno]

UDawg has a dirty mind. LMFAO!!! :cool:
I bet you were thinking about his pub3z. ;) :D

[zsynth]

Just a little tidbit about MP3's.


Vulnerability Found In MP3, Windows Media Files:

http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20021220S0003

[UDawg]

Originally posted by K.I.L.E.R
UDawg has a dirty mind. LMFAO!!! :cool:
I bet you were thinking about his pub3z. ;) :D

No I wasn't, in fact I have no idea what I meant by it LOL....but eewww to what you said. LOL

[sytaylor]

are the RIAA really running that low on ideas? i mean cmon if mp3s are compressed then what the HELL is a telephone conversation?! oh no wait its pretty much impossible to pirate a telephone conversation... therefore its perfectly safe with the RIAA

[fastguy94416]

here is some more stuff by the same author.

*ahem*

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHHAH

http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logologie/e_index.html

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by sytaylor
are the RIAA really running that low on ideas? i mean cmon if mp3s are compressed then what the HELL is a telephone conversation?! oh no wait its pretty much impossible to pirate a telephone conversation... therefore its perfectly safe with the RIAA

this has nothing to do with the RIAA. it is a "study" done by some whacko in Germany.

[Feanor]

Originally posted by UDawg71
I heard it will also make you go blind and give you hairy palms.

And here I always heard it was flogging the bishop that would cause that :D Man the RIAA must have some pretty good spin-meisters there j/k And listening to MP3s being bad for one's hearing ROFL And oh yeah RIAA with about the same level of veracity as this study could claim, I could say that inserting noise in copy protected CDs can cause the same problem.

Feed me a line...lets make an argument about the reconstruction of a digital signal found on a CD not being exactly like the analog wave of the original and that this damages people's hearing too. Oh but wait, they want to sell CDs as long as they can copy protect them. Never mind, their perposterousness would conveniently not extend that far :p