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Anatomy of Cactus Data Shield

Posted by michael on from the prickly-on-the-outside-squishy-on-the-inside dept.

meehawl writes: "This is a good analysis by CDRInfo on the current version of Midbar's Cactus Data Shield. This is the format Universal will use to protect its new audio CDs. It's been reported here already that some DVDs effectively bypass this protection, but this article addresses the specific concerns of how best to backup these protected CDs, and how to extract the music data at high quality for download to a personal MP3 listening device."

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  1. Jargon to English Translation by Skirwan · · Score: 5, Funny
    How does the Cactus Data Shield work?
    Translation: How can I circumvent it?
    As Midbar explains "...The Cactus Data Shield proprietary technology was developed in-house by a multidisciplinary team of experts in the fields of information security, physics, mathematics, electronics, cryptography and algorithms.
    Translation:We got a whole room of smart people who worked on it. Sometimes we race them.
    The technology includes proprietary electronic circuits and software algorithms.
    Translation:It uses computers and stuff. It's like the Jetsons.
    The Cactus Data Shield processor is the engine behind the protection and serves as a platform for encoding original content through robust, multi-layer protection schemes.
    Translation: I wanted to just call it Bob, but the head of marketing has a cactus fetish.
    An engineering solution, the protection schemes are adaptive, easily updated and significantly more robust than software solutions.
    Translation: Even though it's basically done in software we can't say that, 'cause it confuses the VPs.
    The Cactus Data Shield copy protection slightly alters the information on the CD in several ways while maintaining perfect audio quality.
    Translation: We only fucked it up a little.

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