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.
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.
I remember they tried a copy protection with video. It drove many players and/or TVs crazy and rendered many movies unwatchable.
Earth Wind and Fire Greatest Hits cant be copied
Although Leonid and Friends does a great cover of September
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.
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.
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.
Sony copyright software that was basically a virus.
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.
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.
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.
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. “
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