On 11-Oct-03, Ingo Hohmann wrote: > Sorry, this is off topic, but got me rolling on the floor ...
> According to the german PC-Magazin the sunncomm is evaluating to sue > student John Haldermann on the basis of the DMCA, because he > published information on how to bypass sunncomms CD copy protection > scheme. It will be a 10 million dollar case. > The published means to bypass copy protection: hold down the shift > key when putting the disc into the drive, so that windows autostart > is suppressed ... What he should have said was "Whatever you do, /don't/ hold down the shift key when putting the disc into the drive!" Then he would've been safe. ;) > More info, e.g. http://vigilant.tv/article/3362 > Kind regards, > Ingo -- Carl Read -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
