[Swordmaker]

PING! Interesting article on copyright protections by crippling software and hardware. Of interest to anyone using a computer to duplicate music and DVDs for backups, or sharing music and other copyrightable material.

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[Salo]

You can use DVD Decrypter from plan9.org, which hooks right into Nero, to smoke DVDs until you are blue in the face. At least I can on my WinXp box.

That said, Apple is foolish to cripple their software.

[SunkenCiv]

"copyright protections by crippling software and hardware"

I think that's been done for years, by a company out of Redmond.

['Civ gives himself a virtual ticker tape parade]