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Posted by Phaeton on 11/23/05 10:03
Gartner: piece of tape defeats any CD DRM
Anti-piracy technologies 'easily defeated', reports analyst
Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 21 Nov 2005
The highly controversial XCP digital rights management (DRM) technology
bundled by Sony BMG on 52 of its audio CD albums can be defeated by
applying a small piece of tape to the discs, according to analyst firm
Gartner.
Applying a piece of opaque tape to the outer edge of the disk renders the
data track of the CD unreadable. A computer trying to play the CD will then
skip to the music without accessing the bundled DRM technology.
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read the rest here :
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2146367/garnter-piece-tape-defeats-cd
Cheers, Csaba
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