'Copy-Protected' CDs Cracked with 99-cent Marker Pen

[musicVision]

LONDON (Reuters) - 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.



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.



"I wonder what type of copy protection will come next?" one posting on alt.music.prince read. "Maybe they'll ban markers."



Sony did not immediately return calls seeking comment.



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Edited by: musicVision at: 5/22/02 7:40:07 am

[bbchris]

WOW! That's gonna piss off Eminem!

Jane Eliz |

[MIKE BURN]

Most of the copy-protected CD's are flooding the german market. The answer of some local software-geeks is a software (I don't say names ), which overrides the 'auto-play' feature in the OS and manually inserts CD's into the CD-ROM drive.



Very comfortable and after that, copying is easy



The labels are really digging their own grave.



Imagine you are a Apple user, wrote a 100 page cost-calculation, important for your business and existance and just because somebody brought you Celine Dion's new CD as a birthday present, you have to file bancruptcy after your Mac crashed and stayed like this for days or weeks..............

MIKE

[Netjams]

That is not cool that the CD MFG is flashing the proms on machines like that. What is going to happen is people won't buy CDs by sony!



Yep.. Their going to kill that part of their bues. for sure!