MESSAGE
| DATE | 2003-10-08 |
| FROM | Mike Richardson - NYLXS PRESIDENT
|
| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] [DMCA_Discuss] Newest Audio CD DRM Proves Ineffective (fwd)
|
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 21:56:42 -0700
From: Jon O.
To: dmca_discuss-at-lists.microshaft.org
Subject: [DMCA_Discuss] Newest Audio CD DRM Proves Ineffective
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jhalderm/cd3/
Abstract. MediaMax CD3 is a new copy-prevention technique from SunnComm Technologies that is designed to prevent unauthorized copying of audio CDs using personal computers. 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. I explain that MediaMax interferes with audio copying by installing a device driver the first time software from the CD is executed, but I show that this provides only minimal protection because the driver can easily be disabled. I also examine the digital rights management system used to control access to a set of encrypted, compressed audio files distributed on the CD. Although restrictions on these files are more relaxed than in prior copy protected discs, they sti!
ll prohibit many uses permitted by the law. I conclude that MediaMax and similar copy-prevention systems are irreparably flawed but predict that record companies will find success with more customer-friendly alternatives for reducing infringement.
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/06/1845205.shtml?tid=126&tid=141&tid=172&tid=188
"As noted previously, a couple of weeks ago BMG released a new CD by Anthony Hamilton that included DRM. Slashdot readers speculated that the system wouldn't work. Now there is a report proving it doesn't work by Alex Halderman, a graduate student at Princeton's computer science department and the author of an earlier, definitive report (PDF, HTML version) on first generation CD copy protection. Famed computer scientist Ed Felten asks: "Is this the end of the road for CD copy protection?" His answer? "It ought to be.""
_______________________________________________
------------------------
http://www.anti-dmca.org
------------------------
DMCA_Discuss mailing list
DMCA_Discuss-at-lists.microshaft.org
http://lists.microshaft.org/mailman/listinfo/dmca_discuss
____________________________
NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
|
|
