Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/24/05 11:03

Buzz wrote:
> "Phaeton" <phaeton@iinet.net.au> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 43843e92$0$12462$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
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>>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.
>>....
>>
>> read the rest here :
>>http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2146367/garnter-piece-tape-defeats-cd
>>
>> Cheers, Csaba
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>> CSABA I. HARANGOZO |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| phaeton at iinet dot net dot au
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> In fact, that seems to be old news, as this was
> discovered and well talked about on the Net
> a few years ago.
>
> --
> Allen Reny
> http://www.a-reny.com
>
>

Not only that, but it's dangerous. Attaching something to one side of a
CD will unbalance it, which can make it shatter inside your CD-ROM. Not
only does this destroy the CD and probably the drive too, but it can
damage the rest of your computer and injure you.

All the tape/marker trick is really doing anyway is preventing the
"autorun" program on the CD. There's a much safer and more conventional
way to do so:
Hold the Shift key when you put the CD in your computer to prevent
AutoRun just for that time.
Or, search Google. There is a registry key you can edit to disable Auto
Insert Notification (which AutoRun depends on) altogether.

- NRen2k5

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