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  • "Copy-proof" CDs cracked with 99-cent marker pen

    05/20/2002 11:19:00 AM PDT · by GeneD · 135 replies · 729+ views
    Reuters via digitalMASS.com ^ | 5/20/02 | Bernhard Warner
    <p>LONDON, May 20 — Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music's elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker.</p> <p>Internet newsgroups have been circulating news of the discovery for the past week, and in typical newsgroup style, users have pilloried Sony for deploying "hi-tech" copy protection that can be defeated by paying a visit to a stationery store.</p>
  • 'Poison' CD to catch copyists

    05/14/2002 11:40:09 AM PDT · by GeneD · 39 replies · 588+ views
    theage.com.au ^ | 5/14/02 | Garry Barker
    The writing could be on the wall for computer buffs who copy music CDs for their friends. Sony Music has planted a "poisoned pellet" of software in Celine Dion's latest CD, A New Day Has Come, that is capable of crashing, and in cases permanently freezing, the optical drives of personal computers into which the discs are inserted. Michael Speck, of the Australian Record Industry Association, confirmed yesterday that the anti-piracy software trials were under way but said "spiked" CDs had not so far been distributed in Australia, but it was inevitable. The music companies were "simply protecting their property",...