Newest Audio CD DRM Proves Ineffective

The Importance of writes "As noted previously, a couple of weeks ago BMG released a new CD by Anthony Hamilton that included DRM. Slashdot readers speculated that the system wouldn't work. Now there is a report proving it doesn't work by Alex Halderman, a graduate student at Princeton's computer science department and the author of an earlier, definitive report (PDF, HTML version) on first generation CD copy protection. Famed computer scientist Ed Felten asks: "Is this the end of the road for CD copy protection?" His answer? "It ought to be.""

Comments

Wow, it's as if they didn't even try...

[*weasel]

It loads a custom device driver via 'autorun' when you stick the CD in.

So if you hold shift, disable autorun, or run an OS that doesn't do autorun, the CD might as well have no copy protection whatsoever.

This is about as effective as putting a sticker on the front that says 'Pretty please do not attempt to extract data from this CD on your computer'.

I wonder how much money this company got for their incredibly secure DRM system...