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Felten Follower Examines Crippled Music Disks

Posted by michael on Sunday October 20, 2002 @10:29PM 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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ACFP by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-20 22:32 · Score: -1, Redundant

ACFP
Re:Role of OS! by Klerck · 2002-10-20 22:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

This is a correction to the poster of the parent. Windows drivers can be installed whether they are signed or not. The only fussing Windows does is complains that they aren't signed, but the user can install them anyway.
Re:Postscript Viewer by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-20 22:55 · Score: -1, Redundant

whoever modded this down is an idiot and should have their privilages revoked.
Re:Postscript Viewer by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-20 23:03 · Score: -1, Redundant

Exactly. If you think I'm Karma Whoring or something then you're sorely mistaken, Mr. Downvote. I maxed out my Karma a long time ago - I simply posted the link because I had to search for a viewer myself.

- enneff
Oh dear! by cyroth · 2002-10-20 23:09 · Score: -1, Redundant

Oh no, new copy protection measures. Whatever will we do now? We all know that only the most brilliant minds can bypass any new copy protection method
easy by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-20 23:44 · Score: -1, Redundant

Play CD in stereo
Connect line-out from stereo to soundcard's line-in
Record line-in to harddisk