DVD-Audio's CPPM Circumvented

Bodysurf writes "After DVD-Video's CSS encryption was broken in 1999, the music industry chose a much more secure copy-protection method for DVD-Audio called Copy Protection for PreRecorded Media (CPPM). This protection scheme has remained publicly uncracked, but it was circumvented recently, providing the ability to save the unencrypted digital audio data. CDFreaks has the details."

Comments

Yawn...

[nweaver]

So you can hack a software player to store the stream. In other news, Water is Wet.

This story is illegal, and it should be

[IAmMaxHarris]

It's true that copy protection can always be circumvented, given enough time, equipment, and skilled people willing to crack a given system.

These criteria are not met frequently - there aren't a lot of crackers out there. Crackers can't cause a lot of damage if they aren't allowed to spread their cracks.

So we have laws like the DMCA that help curtail this kind of abuse. Because of the DMCA, they won't try to regulate or outlaw debuggers, compilers, ICEs and soldering irons (it would also be immoral to try to regulate these things).

The only loophole is foreign governments that don't support intellectual property rights and don't have a DMCA-like law enacted. The solution for this is economic sanctions and physical disconnection from the rest of the internet (cut their cable lines, jam/destroy their satellites).

Posts that promote piracy are both immoral and illegal. The government won't ignore Slashdot forever, and you'll eventually have to play by the same rules as everyone else.

I broke all audio copyrights years ago.

[GISGEOLOGYGEEK]

I discovered this amazing technology that no copy protection can protect against!

I figured I better announce it here since no one seems to have a clue about it!

THE LINE OUT JACKS ON MY SOUND CARD!

dumbasses.