On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 07:47:33PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Read an article in the WP about copyprotected CD's: > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061800149.html > > > > Would cdparanoia care? > > I read that article all the way through this AM, hoping that it would say > something about how the protection scheme works. But it didn't. No doubt > the vendor stays quiet about the specifics, but it shouldn't be hard to > figure out. > > Does anyone know the details? Some Windows-specific driver that's required > to read the tracks? And how does it know how many times you've ripped a > song-- stashing counts in the registry some place, or in a hidden part of > the hard drive? > > In any case, it sounds like an abomination-- a music CD that requires > Windows.
This is just the beginning... http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html Mmmm ... these links are about 2 years old but I presume they are still valid :-( -- Chris. ====== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
