more on Copy Protection Easily Defeated With Shift Key

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei () rsasecurity com>
Date: December 20, 2004 12:42:23 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] Copy Protection Easily Defeated With Shift Key


> From: David Farber

> Subject: [IP] Copy Protection Easily Defeated With Shift Key
>
> SonyBMG plans to begin the new year with a batch of freshly
> pressed music cds that will feature copy protection
> technology from First 4 Internet. First 4 Internet's
> technology encodes the music files with a heavy encryption
> that allows standard cd players to playback the music. There
> are also additional data files on the CD that further enhance
> encryption. All of which is easily bypassed by simply holding
> down the shift button when you load the CD into a PC.
>
> http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=23525

For IP, if you wish:

Dave:
Didn't we go through this a year ago with SunnComm?
Peter Trei


  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/09/sunncomm_to_sue_shift_key/

  SunnComm to sue ‘Shift key’ student for $10m
  By Tony Smith
  Published Thursday 9th October 2003 20:48 GMT

  SunnComm has threatened Princeton PhD student Alex
  Halderman with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
  for exposing a key weakness in the company's latest CD
  copy protection technology, MediaMax CD3.

  The company said today it will take legal action against
  Halderman for revealing how MediaMax CD3 can be bypassed by
  holding down a Windows PC's Shift key when a protected disc
  is inserted.

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