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CD Copyprotection is doomed!

John A. Halderman from Princeton has written a research paper detailed how to circumvent the MediaMax CD3 copyprotection:

SunnComm claims its product facilitates "a verifiable and commendable level of security," but in tests on a newly-released album, I find that the protections may have no effect on a large fraction of deployed PCs, and that most users who would be affected can bypass the system entirely by holding the shift key every time they insert the CD.

How many defeats will they have to take before they wisen up? How many millions of dollars are they wasting on this crap? Wouldn't it be better to spend this money developing some Internet friendly licensing schemes?

Posted by Mayhem at October 8, 2003 01:42 PM