Gaffer Tape Defeats Sony DRM Rootkit

The Register ^ | 11/21/05 | John Leyden

[tophat9000]

Tape or magic marker is doing the same thing, blocking the track...so magic marker is the better choice to do this over tape

[rock_lobsta]

Good for holding your money too. I actually bought one of these.

[N3WBI3]

I seem to remember some of the first DRM on cd schemes were defeated by sharpies..

[N3WBI3]

40+ years of music telling everyone that society's rules don't matter - and now they want everyone to be nice and keep all their rules. Hah!

Never thought about it that way, very insightful... Thanks..

[Spiff]

Just disable AutoRun. That's a security measure that everyone should do anyway as it prevents apps from automatically installing themselves or executing any instructions just because you inserted a disk. It is a minor inconvenience to have to manually execute things from CD, but not much. In fact, I find it annoying that whenever I inserted an application CD that also had an installer, the installer would launch and I'd have to close it.

[js1138]

If the CD plays on a stand-alone CD player, all you have to do is take the optical output of the player to the optical input of your sound card and you get perfect rips at 1x.

[untrained skeptic]

"Just disable AutoRun."

Good advice. I'd forgotten to do that on my newest computer.

[adam_az]

"If the CD plays on a stand-alone CD player, all you have to do is take the optical output of the player to the optical input of your sound card and you get perfect rips at 1x."

There's also sound card drivers whose output is a .wav file instead of the audio device. :)

[js1138]

There's also sound card drivers whose output is a .wav file instead of the audio device. :)

I can do that with soundForge, but DRM disables a lot of those features. The only foolproof way to defeat all copy protection is to take the analog output of a non-computer player.