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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. DCMA tools hmmm...... by Papa+Legba · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Well I guess Office max and Office Depot are now fubard. Overnight they have become distributers of devices used to circumvent copy protection. I hope the RIAA goes easy on them....

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  2. Will Staples be liable? by warpSpeed · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Does this mean that Staples or Office Depot will be liable for trafficking DMCA circumventions devices?

    How would you like to be arrested in the marker alsle? Freeze! Drop the marker, slowly!

  3. Get ready for the penless society by dcavanaugh · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Now that felt-tip pens are a copyright protection circumvention tool, the mere discussion of pens is now a DMCA violation. Heaven help the people who are "trafficing" in this "contraband". How are they going to find enough prison space for all those OfficeMax and Staples employees?

  4. So... by jsse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    if we don't stop you'll post it again next week?...

  5. Bwahahaha!!!!! by darkonc · · Score: 1, Redundant
    All we need now is for some geek band to put out a copy-protected CD, and then sue Pilot and Bic for making felt pens!

    Let the Copyright games begin!

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