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Labels Trying New CD Copy Prevention Systems

Posted by michael on from the never-say-die dept.

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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  1. Re:Cool by the_mad_poster · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Lanzaa feels a cold cock striking his face as he realizes that he has been added to the ever-growing group of people who have realized, thanks to TMP, that he is a gibbering, cock-smoking retard with no life. So far, TMP has bitch-slapped a total of 40,000 simpletons who have nothing better to do with their time than waste bandwidth on the intarweb while furiously masturbating to furry porn on their virus-and-spyware-laden Windox machine, you being one of them.
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  2. Re:Okay.... by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.

    Can you say Wal-Mart?

    LK

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  3. Re:They admit it can be hacked by flamingdog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

    My tool quite readily identifies pornographic images. Well, at least the ones I like.

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  4. Re:They admit it can be hacked by Bloater · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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

    I dunno, if you lose your tool in an accident can you still tell what's pornographic and what's just a picture of a pretty lady?

  5. Re:Okay.... by Alsee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, who's gonna post the crack?

    Here ya go!

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