This might be a repost, but I didn't see any topics on it.
I heard this from one of my co-workers yesterday, and it was also on NPR...
Sony has been working on perfecting a copy-protected CD for years. The research has cost them over a million dollars. Recently, they decided to test out their new expensive technology.
Apparently, it works by putting blank spaces in the first CD track. If you hold one of these new CDs up to the light, you can see little clear spaces in them. Since computer CD-ROMS try to read data first, it'll give them an error message when they come across large areas of nothing. This prevents burning, ripping, etc. You get the point.
Anyways, Sony puts out this new technology. I'm sure they were very excited - until someone cracked it on the FIRST DAY IT WAS OUT.
Not even a crack, really. This is how he did it. He held it up to the light, saw the little gaps, pulled out a magic marker, and colored over the back of the CD over the gaps. Voila! A perfectly working, perfectly rippable CD.
Over a million dollars worth of research and technology by one of the world's leading electronics corporations, brought down on the first day of its release by a 39-cent Sharpie.
Ironic, ain't it?
Here's a CNN news story link.
I heard this from one of my co-workers yesterday, and it was also on NPR...
Sony has been working on perfecting a copy-protected CD for years. The research has cost them over a million dollars. Recently, they decided to test out their new expensive technology.
Apparently, it works by putting blank spaces in the first CD track. If you hold one of these new CDs up to the light, you can see little clear spaces in them. Since computer CD-ROMS try to read data first, it'll give them an error message when they come across large areas of nothing. This prevents burning, ripping, etc. You get the point.
Anyways, Sony puts out this new technology. I'm sure they were very excited - until someone cracked it on the FIRST DAY IT WAS OUT.
Not even a crack, really. This is how he did it. He held it up to the light, saw the little gaps, pulled out a magic marker, and colored over the back of the CD over the gaps. Voila! A perfectly working, perfectly rippable CD.
Over a million dollars worth of research and technology by one of the world's leading electronics corporations, brought down on the first day of its release by a 39-cent Sharpie.
Ironic, ain't it?
Here's a CNN news story link.
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