RE: Student faces suit over key to CD locks

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

        [SNIP]

> Not only that, but by annoucing they are going to sue, they hype the
> press up so the general public knows about it as well.  As it was, the
> security community and interested geeks were probably the only ones who
> would have noticed the issue, but now the whole world knows.  Can you
> imagine Johnny Slowpoke, who knows little to nothing about computers,
> reading the article and saying, "Honey, look at this.  Some company made
> copy protection for CDs that was so lame that all you have to do is hold
> down the shift key to bypass it.  Can you imagine that?  How stupid is
> that?  And now they're suing the student who pointed it out.  What a
> bunch of dorks!"

Naw, most non-techies are going to spend a week trying to locate the
'shift' key, after they finally locate the "anykey".

This story and suit is going to make its waves in the techie circles, but,
will most likely not get alot of real play in the real world.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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OK, so you're a Ph.D.  Just don't touch anything.

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