[BC] Sticky Tape Defeats Sony DRM Copy Protection

[dean tiernan]

/I got it off slashdot.com



"As reported by InformationWeek, Sony BMG Music's controversial 
copy-protection scheme can be defeated with a small piece of tape 
<http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174400748>. 
According to thinktank Gartner <http://www.gartner.com/Init> analysts 
Martin Reynolds and Mike McGuire, Sony's XCP technology is stymied by 
sticking a fingernail-size piece of opaque tape 
<http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=136331> on the outer edge 
of the CD. 'After more than five years of trying, the recording industry 
has not yet demonstrated a workable DRM scheme for music CDs. Gartner 
believes that it will never achieve this goal as long as CDs must be 
playable by stand-alone CD players.'"/

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Dean
www.Audicy.net
www.DeanTiernan.com