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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. 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!

  3. 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

  4. 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 :(