Re: CD copy protection

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 11/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:36:44 +0000 (UTC)

In article <1h62sj8.hjkfdt19veo4zN%benoit.sansspam@leraillez.sansspam.com>,
Benoit Leraillez <benoit.sansspam@leraillez.sansspam.com> wrote:
>Walter Roberson <roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:

>> - any Digital Rights Management scheme, including Sony's
>> (doesn't prevent the CD from being copied -- at *most* prevents
>> the information on the copied CD from being useful.)

> On a machine running Windows, but if it's running Mac OS X, Linux or
>any other Unix system (plus many other)...

That's why I wrote "at *most*". Besides the tricks of previous DRM
schemes such as holding down the shift key. 

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