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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. Witch one is is: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What business-model do the FSF propose these days, is it:

    1: Write free software.
    2: ?
    3: Examine Crippled Music Disks.
    4: Profit.

    Or is it:

    1: Write free software.
    2: ?
    3: Eat a banana.
    4: Profit!

    ?

  2. Fair use? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think you'll find the copy-prevention efforts of the record industry are intended to foil the illegal copyright infringements that are virtually pandemic on the internet. No matter which word games you play in your quest to pretend that theft is legal, widespread unauthorized dissemination isn't fair use. This bleating about fair use is exactly the sort of propaganda that I hate. It's literally counterproductive to the cause of promoting genuine fair use.

    The record companies aren't trying to stamp out fair use. They are trying to protect themselves from rampant theft. It is extremely intellectually dishonest to pretend otherwise.

  3. Re:LOTR: an allegory for our times by ThePeeWeeMan · · Score: -1, Troll

    What, you think Osama is secretly using the RIAA to commit terrorist acts?

    Then again, he actually might be...