Labels Trying New CD Copy Prevention Systems

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.'"

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They admit it can be hacked

[Porn Whitelist]

From the article:

"Could it be broken? I'm sure that somebody must be able to do it," said Graham Oakes, the head of Los Angeles-based Ezee Studios, which represents First 4 Internet. "But is there a generally known hack that has been put on the Net, or have any of the record label IT people found a hack yet? No."

So it's only a matter of time ...

The company got its start by offering a tool to identify pornographic images

Like you need a tool to do this? :-)

Re:A way around it all.

[belmolis]

Even better is to get at the digital audio data before it hits the digital-to-analog converter. Vsound is a free, open source program that does this under Linux.

Re:And on a Linux PC

[Porn Whitelist]

That's because Linux is broken.
It has nothing to do with the CD.

It has EVERYTHING to do with the CD. That's why copy-protected "CDs" can't carry the CD logo - they're broken.

Or have you forgotten this story http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/11/181625 8&mode=thread