[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It seems it is not so easily circumvented AND it would be illegal by th DMCA.
> In any case it's the principal that matters. Just Who The Fuck Do They Think
> They Are!
> -It seems to me that any hardware protection could be trivially
> -circumvented by naughty software.
>
> -This seems like a legitimate proposal for little gadgets like portable MP3
> -players, DVD recorders, etc. But hard disks? Without cooperative software
> -it's hopeless. Right?
Well, in short: computers are used to store and process data created by the user.
Any data can be encoded in other data, like for example you could encode the
Bytes of your Windoze CD-ROM in hex code (00-FF), and type these, by hand, into
Microsoft Word. If you're smart enough, you could write script in VBA that does
the same a bit faster. Then you send it by email, and your friend converts it
back to whatever and writes it to disk. Of course will he also be able to execute
files thusly transmitted. And so on. You could basically implement the whole of
Linux and an x86 emulator in VB or Java .. a waste of cycles, but nothing to stop
pirating music and movies - only that this would then be a civic duty.
It's not really like there was any realistic chance for copy protection, but it's
how much we'll have to bleed in the wars over it till they understand their own
futility. And that view is troublesome.
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