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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. Postscript Viewer by enneff · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those that don't have a Postscript viewer and run Windows, check out RoPS - small, fast and effective.

  2. Re:Damn PS by Pathwalker · · Score: 5, Informative

    here is a PDF version for those people stuck on systems with only an acrobat viewer.

    It looks like he used a bitmap font, so the conversion looks a little ugly, but it is readable. I'll try to replace it with a better conversion in a half hour or so, as soon as I match the font he used.