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E-Book Copy Protection, For What It's Worth
AudioBooksForFree.Com writes "WHSmith have challenged AudioBooksForFree.Com to breaks Microsoft Reader e-book protection. It just took 30 minutes." No, they didn't break the encryption; instead, this is just an application of the idea that it's very hard to make something which can be displayed but not copied.
I just popped of the "PrtScn" keycaps from all my keyboards and burnt them. I don't want Microsoft's lawyers after me for DMCA violations.
Print Screen, a treacherous tool of terrorists for twenty-rwo years.
Obviously, only terrorists use Print Screen.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
My PrtScn key has been defective ever since I tried to copy a DVD at 60 frames per second.
IANAL, but imagine a beowulf cluster of in Soviet Russia all your belong are base to us welcoming the new SCO overlords.
"Ok everyone. Here is the newest unbreakable scheme. On the license, we give everybody their unique key to unlock their content. When they playback/read the file we've given them, we deliver the bitstream through the speakers, then the use their heads to calculate the unencrypted result. Don't follow? Here's a demo!"
"Here's Dustin Hoffman, he's going to show us how this is done. I just hit play here, and..."
*a blindfolded Dustin Hoffman walks onto the stage*
*a modem-like squeal is emitted from the speakers*
*presenter holds up a placard reading "Oops, I did it again"*
dustin: "Yeah, definitely Britney Spears."
*audience claps*
*more squealing*
dustin: "Yeah, definitely Crime and Punishment. Yeah."
Presenter: "Thank you, thank you. Be sure to come back next time, when we will discuss the solution to the "humming/speaking" circumvention method"
*everything* is Orwellian to cats.
And it took only 30 secs for slashdot to bring them down. If the RIAA/MPAA were crafty enough you think they could use slashdot to destroy their enemies. "Hey dudz go to www.dvdinstoripandincodethingy.com, with this you can rip and encode any DVD in 3 minutes on a 386!" *Screams are heard 3 seconds later from the poor server, running openBSD on a gameboy, as it melts* Why waste money on laweryes when one slashdot story will do all you need. And if the site comes back up just re-submit, and its on the front page again. Gotta love slashdot ;).
But, by Jove, if I can see it on the screen, I can retype it. Tedious - yes, impossible - no, if you really want to do it!
Because in a palladium world, ordinary people won't be allowed to take pictures, videotape weddings or record their own music. It's a hard blow, but in exchange we get more Hollywood movies and pop-star music.
Pretty hilarious :) Wonder if that book collection is protected...
I stand corrected. It did seem to be kinda obvious :)
Got brain?
Since Print Screen can be used to thwart copy protection, isn't Microsoft in voilation of the DMCA? You can't make devices that crack copyright protection!
As you see now, anything can be copied as long as it becomes photons/sound waves somewhere along the way to our brains. So, the ONLY way to make your precious material totally locked down is to deliver it directly to our brain. You see what I'm getting at?
Neuroscience, man, neuroscience!
Invest a billion or two of the dollars you have lying around into developing a good, non-dangerous brain-computer interface. Then you can deliver digital content directly to our minds, with no worries about it getting stolen along the way! But that's not all!
Millions of geeks will hail you for bringing this invention to light! The ones that were once against you will say your names with awe and respect! Isn't it tempting?
So do it! Go for neuroscience, to make the world better for all of us!
(Yes, I want my Matrix-like spine plug that bad.
And it has nothing to do with the fact that I could then be the star of my very own pr0n reality. Really.)
I'd play it backwards, record it backwards, then reverse the digital file. Voila! :P
I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!
"When an unemployed iron worker can lay in his Barcalounger and f*ck Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, it's going to make crack look like f*cking Sanka".
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