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Felt Tip Marker Defeats Copy-Protected CDs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the felt-tip-markers-are-now-illegal dept.

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.

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  1. trolls by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "...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"

    OMG. Earth to Malda: You can expect to see exponential growth in troll post story submissions from now on. You have proven that persistence pays.

  2. oops! by mattyohe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry Taco! I submitted it yesterday :( Its amazing what you miss when you dont visit /. daily

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    - what is the definition of simultanagnosia?! I've been meaning to look it up!
  3. Second first post? by matthew.thompson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmmmnnn - sorta takes the fun out of trying to get a decent first post now.

    M@t :o(

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    Matt Thompson - Actuality - Insert product here.
  4. Re:Repeat by zootread · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmmm, well.. I completed missed this the first time they posted about it. I tend to read the titles first and then the details, and thus skipped over it the first time. No harm done by posting a repeat. Especially something that is this hilarious.

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    Zoot!
  5. Re:DMCA jokes by alexjohns · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The Slashdot Cruiser. Wow, I'd forgotten about that. I remember entering that contest. Who won that damn thing? And what did they do with it? Will a search find the answer?

    Yeah, it's off-topic. If I didn't occasionally drop my karma down to 48, I wouldn't have anything to live for.

  6. Slashdot by Sivar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
    News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.

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    Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
  7. Re:DMCA jokes by goodviking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I long for the days of trolls posting haikus about a petrified Natalie Portman slathered in hot grits ...

    Ok, just for you:

    Natalie Portman
    Nice in Star Wars black leather
    But sadly no grits