Recent news about how Sony's placement of DRM code on their music
CDs is backfiring because the code, which gets copied onto your
computer when you play the CD, opens up security holes that hackers
have already taken advantage of. (The old law of unintended
consequences....)
Now I wonder if you are violating the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act if you change the code to close the security
hole? Hmmm..
Diane
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/business/14rights.html?pagewanted=2
The Ghost in the CD
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By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: November 14, 2005
The latest album from Johnny and Donnie Van Zant, "Get Right With the Man," delivers "anthems with the sort of conviction that will inevitably inspire raised fists and chorus sing-a-longs," says Amazon.com's official music reviewer.
Fists are raised all right, but not in the way the Van Zants would have hoped.
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: November 14, 2005
The latest album from Johnny and Donnie Van Zant, "Get Right With the Man," delivers "anthems with the sort of conviction that will inevitably inspire raised fists and chorus sing-a-longs," says Amazon.com's official music reviewer.
Fists are raised all right, but not in the way the Van Zants would have hoped.
After
years of battling users of free peer-to-peer file-sharing networks
(and the software companies that support them), the recording industry
now identifies "casual piracy" - the simple copying and
sharing of CD's with friends - as the biggest threat to its bottom
line.
And in one company's haste to limit the ripping and burning of CD's, a hornet's nest has been stirred. By the end of last week, that company, Sony BMG, which had embedded aggressive copy-protection software on the Van Zant CD and at least 19 others, suspended the use of that software after security companies classified it as malicious.
And in one company's haste to limit the ripping and burning of CD's, a hornet's nest has been stirred. By the end of last week, that company, Sony BMG, which had embedded aggressive copy-protection software on the Van Zant CD and at least 19 others, suspended the use of that software after security companies classified it as malicious.
At least
two Internet-borne worms were discovered attempting to take advantage
of the program, which the CD's transferred to computers that played
them. And the company was facing lawsuits accusing it of fraud and
computer tampering in its efforts at digital rights management, or
D.R.M.
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