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Felt Tip Marker Defeats Copy-Protected CDs
We posted this story over a week ago but the mainstream media
has flooded us with stories about felt tip markers and
copy protected CDs so I figured I'd post it again since I'm really sick of
deleting hundreds of submissions from people who didn't read Slashdot on May 13 ;)
Basically you can mark the rim of some CDs and defeat the copy protection.
And we all know what the DMCA says about tools for circumventing copy protection.
Haha they posted a repeat the editors are such...
Ummmm nevermind
I stole this Sig
Where have I heard that before?
I threw out all my felt-tip markers when I read about this... I wouldn't want to have any tools for the circumvention of copy protection around my house.
-Berj
In a surprise announcement today the justice department attempted to release the details of "Operation Sharpie" in which all felt tip markers are to be confiscated. The press conference ended prematurely when a SWAT team crashed in and siezed the whiteboard and all other presentation materials as evidence.
All my previous sigs now look like this one, I wish they were permanetly recorded when used.
We used felt tip markers to get high. Damn these kids with their fancy gadgets and such.
"I wonder what type of copy protection will come next?" one posting on alt.music.prince read. "Maybe they'll ban markers."
Maybe they'll just ban Prince. I think that would be one use of the DMCA that we could all approve of.
Ok, ok. Kidding. I know: DMCA evil. You guys are right. Now move along.
If you use the black marker to defeat the copy protection, can you still use the green magic marker to make it sound better? And will that improve the sound of your MP3s?
You pry it out of my cold dead hand.
Or...
When Sharpies are outlawed, only outlaws will have Sharpies
-- Chris Martin, System Administrator
In other news, CNN is reporting that a Waste Minimization Assessment for a Manufacturer of Felt Tip Markers has just been published, highlighting the many environmental dangers behind the production of Felt Tip Markers...
All over the country, newspapers and TV news stations are running stories about inhalant abuse, saying that "Inhalants are the third most abused substances among 12 to 14-year-olds in the United States, coming in right behind alcohol and tobacco." (emphasis in original)
Shop owners are being interviewed for upcoming movies which depict them as being devastated by marker graffiti on their shop windows...
And parents are complaining (on national television news, every day) that their kids are coming home covered in marks from classroom marker fights!
I'm sorry but thats one button too many.
It will only have one button; eject.
The VCR/DVD/CD Player will be allways on and will have to be connected to the phone line in order to work (so that your listning/veiwing habits can be tracked).
In fact we can probably get away without the eject button, if we make all players one shot devices.
Wouldn't it be nice if schools got all the money they wanted and the army had to hold jumble sales for guns
WARNING: The following image may be illegal under the DMCA. Further, the image depicts the actual commission of a felony offense in the USA. You have been warned.
Marker Method Illustrated.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
Don't you mean power and pay? ;-D
DennyK
Life:
Customer: Hi, where can I find blank CDs?
Employee: Making Copies. huh? They are on isle five.
If Life were like OfficeMAX:
Customer: Hi, where can I find blank CDs?
Employee: Making Copies. huh? They are on isle five.Right next to the felt tip pens which can be used to circumvent the copy protection of the CDs taht you may be copying. Here I'll print out the instructions for you. And here is my username and password to ftp.phat-warez.com
You are correct. Unfortunatly, the price of sharpies will quadruple to pay for 'piracy potential'.
Do a google search before posting.
I don't know about the rest of you but I think that ThinkGeek should start selling DMCA Circumvention Devices. e.g. a Sharpie with a custom label with a caution symbol and the text "This object may be used as a device for circumventing copyright protection methods as outlined in the DMCA."
I think they'd sell. Who wants an entire office toolbox filled with copyright protection circumvention devices? I do, I do!
slathered in hot grits driving
the Slashdot Cruiser.
Beowulf cluster
imagining it is a
Black Sharpie Marker.
The DMCA
circumvented by markers
Sony weeps openly.
Haiku just for you
all insightful and funny
Slashdot is ok.
Marker pens should be included in the list of dual use goods and technologies.
No more exports to Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Burma, China, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Haiti, Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and Zaire.
The proper procedure for dealing with Celine Dion non-CDs in particular is to color in the entire CD with the marker. This not only defeats the copy protection but prevents the CD from ever being played in any player, which is what's best for society anyway.
This too shall pass.
I bet at least one person has had an embarassing incident over this...
Hollingsworth is submitting a bill to make it manditory to have a device on all felt tip pens to prevent use on copy-protected CDs.
cabg x3 is a life changing event...
"public school is front for mass CD copy circumvention"
Okay.
--Betty
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