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I just found this article on winamp.com :-)
It seems several people have devised a means to defeat the copyright protection on CD's by carefully drawing over the layer of the CD that contains the copy protection technology with a felt tip pen, thus keeping it from causing a computer to crash upon reading it.
The funniest part of this whole ordeal is that under the rules of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, technically felt tip pens should now be made illegal as they contribute to the break down of this copyright protection technology.
In a blatant attempt to show some of the absurdity of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) many members of the on-line community are now actually pushing to make felt tip pen's illegal to prove their point.
In some what related news, it seems some folks have also figured out how to defeat most standardized finger print detection systems by creating a finger out of Gummi Bears. Does this now mean that we will be forced to outlaw our favorite sticky snack also?
*Sigh* It seems congress is so happy at their beloved new DMCA laws they are actually toasting to them with Champagne. Are our congressional leaders ever going to really understand technology and stand up for the people and not the industries that give them money to run for office?
It seems several people have devised a means to defeat the copyright protection on CD's by carefully drawing over the layer of the CD that contains the copy protection technology with a felt tip pen, thus keeping it from causing a computer to crash upon reading it.
The funniest part of this whole ordeal is that under the rules of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, technically felt tip pens should now be made illegal as they contribute to the break down of this copyright protection technology.
In a blatant attempt to show some of the absurdity of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) many members of the on-line community are now actually pushing to make felt tip pen's illegal to prove their point.
In some what related news, it seems some folks have also figured out how to defeat most standardized finger print detection systems by creating a finger out of Gummi Bears. Does this now mean that we will be forced to outlaw our favorite sticky snack also?
*Sigh* It seems congress is so happy at their beloved new DMCA laws they are actually toasting to them with Champagne. Are our congressional leaders ever going to really understand technology and stand up for the people and not the industries that give them money to run for office?
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Heh, cue a Will Smith style "Pish!"
*gets out his felt tip pen*
Lol, :-D
great, if that was a joke it doesnt deserve a GAD. but if it was true GIV IM A GAD
can i get some of them gummi bear fingers
can i get some of them gummi bear fingers
Mr. Happy wrote:
> HálloHowArtThou wrote:
> do a search on google for "cd copyright protection pens"
> without the "'s and you'll see that, in spite of my reputation
> for spoof news articles, this one is in fact genuine.
ok ok ,you win i lose..
:-D
> HálloHowArtThou wrote:
> do a search on google for "cd copyright protection pens"
> without the "'s and you'll see that, in spite of my reputation
> for spoof news articles, this one is in fact genuine.
ok ok ,you win i lose..
:-D
HálloHowArtThou wrote:
> sorry to ruin your fun people but that was actually utter cr@p...
>
> Ans anyway you have to be pretty stupiud to do that, you're most
> likely to go off and write over the bit where the music is.. heh
No it wasn't. It's been widely reported on the internet and is quite true.
Sony's copyright protection works by adding a gobbledygook data track to the outer rim of the cd. Normal cd players don't look for the data track, but try opening it in a cd-rom drive and the corrupt track will prevent the computer from ever actually reading the audio on the cd. Drawing over this track with a pen, or using sticky tape, prevents the computer from reading the track and so allows smooth copying of cd's again.
do a search on google for "cd copyright protection pens" without the "'s and you'll see that, in spite of my reputation for spoof news articles, this one is in fact genuine.
> sorry to ruin your fun people but that was actually utter cr@p...
>
> Ans anyway you have to be pretty stupiud to do that, you're most
> likely to go off and write over the bit where the music is.. heh
No it wasn't. It's been widely reported on the internet and is quite true.
Sony's copyright protection works by adding a gobbledygook data track to the outer rim of the cd. Normal cd players don't look for the data track, but try opening it in a cd-rom drive and the corrupt track will prevent the computer from ever actually reading the audio on the cd. Drawing over this track with a pen, or using sticky tape, prevents the computer from reading the track and so allows smooth copying of cd's again.
do a search on google for "cd copyright protection pens" without the "'s and you'll see that, in spite of my reputation for spoof news articles, this one is in fact genuine.
Mr. Happy wrote:
> In some what related news, it seems some folks have also figured out
> how to defeat most standardized finger print detection systems by
> creating a finger out of Gummi Bears. Does this now mean that we will
> be forced to outlaw our favorite sticky snack also?
Me: So constable, who nicked my Tv and DVD player?
Constable: I'm sorry you inform you laddy we are lead to believe it was a gummi bear.
heh
> In some what related news, it seems some folks have also figured out
> how to defeat most standardized finger print detection systems by
> creating a finger out of Gummi Bears. Does this now mean that we will
> be forced to outlaw our favorite sticky snack also?
Me: So constable, who nicked my Tv and DVD player?
Constable: I'm sorry you inform you laddy we are lead to believe it was a gummi bear.
heh
This cant be true surely
felts and gummy bears ??? lol
felts and gummy bears ??? lol
sorry to ruin your fun people but that was actually utter cr@p...
Ans anyway you have to be pretty stupiud to do that, you're most likely to go off and write over the bit where the music is.. heh
Ans anyway you have to be pretty stupiud to do that, you're most likely to go off and write over the bit where the music is.. heh
hoho
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