Talk about the pen being mightier than the copy-protection. All that time and money invested in what is believed to be a fool-proof copy protection scheme to stop folks from ripping tracks from Sony CDs and even a fool could defeat it with nothing more than a good old fashioned magic marker.
Stupid Evil Bastard
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Okay, apparently if they can spend money on “copy-proofing” CD’s then their sales can’t be doing that bad.
There’s definately a Goddess, though, if a felt-tip maker can make all your music piracy dreams come true.
I find it so funny that this information is basically getting shared at warp speed. Silly record companies..silly GREEDY record companies.
how is the pen mightier then copy protection?
how does this work?
Ah, looks like the article I linked to has expired so let me elaborate.
What I was talking about only applied to an attempt to copy protect music CDs that Sony Music was producing. The copy protection was based on how PC CD-ROM drives read CDs versus how most CD players read them. The outer edge of the disc had an intentionally corrupted track that caused most CD-ROMs in PCs to reject the disc as unreadable, but that most CD players ignored. It cost a lot of money to come up with this idea.
Then some guys figured out within a few days that if you took a black magic marker and ran it around that outer edge you could once again get the music CD to be recognize by your PC’s CD-ROM drive and start ripping tracks from it. This trick doesn’t work on game CDs.