[IP] more on Copy Protection Easily Defeated With Shift Key
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 20, 2004 12:42:23 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [IP] Copy Protection Easily Defeated With Shift Key
From: David Farber
Subject: [IP] Copy Protection Easily Defeated With Shift Key
SonyBMG plans to begin the new year with a batch of freshly
pressed music cds that will feature copy protection
technology from First 4 Internet. First 4 Internet's
technology encodes the music files with a heavy encryption
that allows standard cd players to playback the music. There
are also additional data files on the CD that further enhance
encryption. All of which is easily bypassed by simply holding
down the shift button when you load the CD into a PC.
http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=23525
For IP, if you wish:
Dave:
Didn't we go through this a year ago with SunnComm?
Peter Trei
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/09/sunncomm_to_sue_shift_key/
SunnComm to sue ‘Shift key’ student for $10m
By Tony Smith
Published Thursday 9th October 2003 20:48 GMT
SunnComm has threatened Princeton PhD student Alex
Halderman with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
for exposing a key weakness in the company's latest CD
copy protection technology, MediaMax CD3.
The company said today it will take legal action against
Halderman for revealing how MediaMax CD3 can be bypassed by
holding down a Windows PC's Shift key when a protected disc
is inserted.
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