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copy prevention software for CDs that didn't work

Posted on 08/13/2019 9:37:34 AM PDT by bluescape

Does anyone remember a few years ago the music industry paid a company, a person actually, to make a cd music disks that you couldn't rip songs off to your computer?

The hackers were all over it the second it came out and besides being easy to hack the lousy software was simply disabled when you loaded the cd by holding down the space bar or something like that.

I'd like to get the person's name or company to look up.


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1 posted on 08/13/2019 9:37:34 AM PDT by bluescape
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To: bluescape

Sony had a copy protection scheme that was easily defeated by marking part of the CD with a Sharpie. I don’t remember anything with a space bar, or similar.


2 posted on 08/13/2019 9:40:09 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: bluescape

I remember they tried a copy protection with video. It drove many players and/or TV’s crazy and rendered many movies unwatchable.


3 posted on 08/13/2019 9:41:49 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: bluescape

Earth Wind and Fire Greatest Hits can’t be copied


4 posted on 08/13/2019 9:48:25 AM PDT by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: cyclotic

Although Leonid and Friends does a great cover of September


5 posted on 08/13/2019 9:49:02 AM PDT by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: bluescape

Freeware “Audiograbber” always worked well for me. It would pull any audio tracks from any CD and also access the online database to set titles and track names. But that was ages ago.


6 posted on 08/13/2019 10:03:56 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
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To: bluescape

It was called MediaMax and put out by a OTC Sham company called SunnComm, operated by a Peter H. Jacobs, who has a long history of operating shady companies.


7 posted on 08/13/2019 10:05:38 AM PDT by SirFishalot
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To: bluescape

There’s a ton of schemes they tried, to be sure. Could you possibly be remembering “Copy Control”? That one you could by-pass by holding down the shift key.


8 posted on 08/13/2019 10:06:57 AM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: bluescape

Sony copyright software that was basically a virus.


9 posted on 08/13/2019 10:13:24 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: SJSAMPLE

MediaMax was the encryption system Sony used. Velvet Revolver had the first major release using it, and they took a real beating in Social Media for using it.


10 posted on 08/13/2019 10:17:58 AM PDT by SirFishalot
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To: bluescape

A dumb idea, like the stupid law that mandated that cars wouldn’t start if you didn’t sit, buckle the f^%#(*$*&@ belt, and try to start the car, in that order. Sometime in the late 70’s.


11 posted on 08/13/2019 10:31:43 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: bluescape

Try Cactus Data Shield

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus_Data_Shield

Had a second track that messed with some car CD players. Could be circumvented by marking out the track.

It messed up the disc so bad they were not allowed to use the Compact Disc logo.


12 posted on 08/13/2019 11:41:22 AM PDT by sloanrb
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To: SirFishalot

Thanks to your replies.

That led me to the info I had heard at the time where it’s listed in Wikipedia’s mediamax page.

” People who do not disable AutoRun can prevent the software from loading by holding down the shift key[5] each time a disc is inserted. “


13 posted on 08/13/2019 1:24:36 PM PDT by bluescape (Mainstream Media-The guard dog that holds you down while the attacker has his way.)
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