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Felten Follower Examines Crippled Music Disks

Posted by michael on from the keeping-busy dept.

D4C5CE writes "Following in the footsteps of his famous professor, in his paper "Evaluating New Copy-Prevention Techniques for Audio CDs" (yes, that's pure PS), which is one of many interesting contributions to the 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, Princeton student Alex Halderman takes apart (bit by bit, literally) the "tricks on tracks" employed by the music industry to frustrate fair use."

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  1. Long trip... by mseeger · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hi,

    I hope he knows such trips to conferences may last longer than expected. Instead of bodyguards he should be guarded by lawyers.

    Yours, Martin

  2. Crippled music discs? by acehole · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do they have wheelchairs or crutches?

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  3. This guy rocks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it just me, or does he have a picture of Natalie Portman in his photo collection?

    Her name is Julie?

    Copy-protection bashing and Natalie Portman... A hero to us all. I salute you!

  4. Actually, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they prefer the term "Music Discs with Disabilities"

    1. Re:Actually, by more+fool+you · · Score: 5, Funny

      or even useability-challenged

    2. Re:Actually, by wiit_rabit · · Score: 3, Funny

      How about Fair Use challenged.

    3. Re:Actually, by operagost · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's "Differently-abled", you insensitive right-wing clod!

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  5. errr, what's ps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    it doesn't have an icon on my windows xp system. Do I use notepad :(

    1. Re:errr, what's ps? by Hal-9001 · · Score: 2, Funny

      1337 h4x0rs read Postscript in plain text...just not in Notepad... ;-)

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  6. Oh nooooo... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now it's not just the DMCA we're up against; we also have to worry about the ADA. If you don't buy one of these copy-protected CDs you may be sued for discriminating against the handicapped.

  7. Re:DMCA? by klaasvakie · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> I'm still happy he's published but I wonder whether the lawyer-boys in the RIAA are salivating right now... (insert hungry animal growling noise here).

    they aren't, he published it in .ps format, the RIAA can't read it.

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