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bAdministrator writes "What if a CD copy-protection system was developed, which did not compromise sound quality nor cause compatibility problems, and still allowed for your 'rights' to make a limited amount of personal copies (*.DRM)? UK-based company First 4 Internet (F4i) claims to have pulled this off with their 'eXtended Copy Protection' (XCP) system; 'The disc will present itself as a CD-ROM to PCs, a Mac CD-ROM to Mac computers, a VCD to DVD players and CDDA disc to audio CD players. This multifunctional disc format offers full playability and therefore greater flexibility without lowering protection levels.' and 'By using a range of methodologies, including the construction of multiple protection layers, limiting the player accessibility to the provided player software, and encapsulating the red book audio content, XCP® successfully protects the content from unauthorised copying.'"
It presents itself as a broken CD.
Anyone have a link to a torrent for it?
So, who's gonna post the crack?
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
I have a feeling that this will finally be the copy protection scheme that works because this morning the RIAA stopped by my house and removed the shift key from my keyboard.
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The best way to look at these systems is not as an attempt to actually prevent people from ripping CDDA audio from CDs: that's effectively impossible.
Think of them as an elegant method of separating the record labels from millions and millions of dollars of their money, in return for...nothing.
Hm. I'm in the wrong line of work.
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My tool is pretty good at identifying (or, at least, reacting to) pornographic images...
Of course if the sound card is DRM enabled, it will hear the sub-audible "watermark" in the audio & not record the audio. And of course Soldering irons will have been banned by the DMCA, so you'll already be in prison for you first act.
Slashdot.org is hosted in the United States, and what you describe is almost certainly a DMCA violation in the United States. Any site telling you how to modify Windows to open up the Secure Audio Path will get shut down by Microsoft and/or the major record labels.
This may just be a rumour, but I've heard that this Interweb thingy lets you access sites in completely different countries!
Just imagine the possibilities if it's true!
If we were to allow private intellectual property to fall into the public domain, just think about the tragedy of the commons that would ensue! No, all resources MUST be privately owned if there is to be an incentive to manage it responsibly. The idea that copyright is supposed to be time-limited is just an antiquated notion (like slavery!) put forth by our hippy forefathers. Get with the 21st century!
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