Re: Is the record industry turning to Trojan horse programs to copy-protect CDs? (!DSPAM:3f849a9217188983316675!)]

[Scott Manley <djsnm () djsnm com>]

> Absolutely...and if they intend on doing so they shouldn't agree not to
> rip the tracks if there is some type of lingo in a EULA.

The the record industry had half a clue then the driver wouldn't render
the tracks unreadable (immediately tipping hte user off to problems)
instead they should've processed the data comgin from the drive to add
an inaudible, but robust, watermark to the data, containing info on the
PC being used. Assuming the watermark was halfway well designed it would
survive the encoding process and be extractable from mp3's or ogg's made
available on filesharing networks. Then.... the RIAA would be able to
trace the files to the user who ripped and released them, and a far
stronger legal case, no doubt.

Scott Manley
Astronomer, DJ, Hacker, wierdo


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