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Microsoft Preps 'Janus' Music Copy-Prevention Scheme
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is expected to unveil copy-protection software this summer that will for the first time give portable digital music players access to rented tunes from all-you-can-eat subscription services -- a development that some industry executives believe will shake up the online music business." Janus is the Roman god of doorways, gates, passages, preventing people from copying music, etc.
Lest we forget, Janus is also two-faced.
Anonymous Luddite: "What do you think of the dehumanizing effects of the Internet?"
Andy Grove: "Not Much."
Can you "disable it" by holding the shift key while inserting the cd?
Society of Janus is a San Francisco based BDSM education/support group...
know what it is exactly you're consenting to when you click accept on EULA.
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
Sounds more like a name of some diabolical, secret plot to rule the world.
...Maybe I've had too much caffeine recently.
"Launch project Janus!"
"You'll never get away with this!"
"I already have, Bond! Within minutes, the world will have no choice but to bow to my demands... or face the consequences."
"You fiend!"
and the bettings good that the cracking program will be called Hugh allowing one to Hugh .....
oh come on, the article says, "Janus would add a hacker-resistant clock to portable music players for files encoded in Microsoft's proprietary Windows Media Audio format." We all know that when Microsoft makes something hacker-resistant there's just no way to crack it.
Making stupid comments so you don't have to.
Everytime I hear someone use the phrase "hacker-proof". I think of the Titanic's designers calling it "unsinkable"
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
This would be about as bright robbing a bank naked, in broad daylight, and using your own car as the getaway vehicle.
Think about the kind of people who are reading this right now...
Now picture them naked.
Ok, now think about what kind of sick, twisted, perverse people are actually going to take a good look at those kind of naked people and ask yourself, "Do any of those sick, twisted or perverse people work at my bank".
If the answer is no, then this might actually be a feasible plan...
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
There are 10 kinds of people in the world > > Those who understand binary and those who don't
I'm surprised no one is mentioned that 100% uncrackable DRM: refusal to release.
If more record companies would simply *NOT RELEASE* music, there would be nothing to crack. In fact, I'd urge record companies to examine this carefully. Take Janet Jackson, for example. If they *refused to release* 'Damita Jo' -- or, better yet, refused to record it -- there would be nothing to crack, nothing to leak, and no filesharing problem.
The fact that record companies have recorded Damita Jo and actually released it indicates (to me, at least) that the record companies are as complicit in the problem as anyone else.
My two cents.