Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs 843
rjoseph writes "MacUser is running an article about how the new Celine Dion CD A New Day Has Come with copy protection mechanisms to prevent the CD from being played on a PC not only won't play on an iMac, but it will lock the CD tray (so it can't be removed) and fubar the firmware (so the machine can't be rebooted), effectivley killing the iMac. Ouch." We mentioned this interesting experiment in consumer relations last month as well, but now it's getting noticed a lot more. However, emkman writes: "What was first thought to be an April Fool's joke, now appears to be true. Some Audio CD protection schemes such as Cactus DATA Shield 100/200, KeyAudio, and perhaps others may be defeated by invalidating the outer ring of the CD with a black marker or post-it sticky note. www.chip.de has their report in German, here is a translation."
Class Action Lawsuit! (Score:4, Funny)
Oh no! (Score:2, Funny)
But who listens to Celine Dion anyway? (Score:1, Funny)
Punishment (Score:2, Funny)
Finally someone who realizes.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Punishment (Score:5, Funny)
No, this is your karmically-correct punishment for buying the Celine Dion CD...listening is its own punishment.
Celine Dion does not meet Starcraft (Score:5, Funny)
graspee
P.S. This may have legal implications if my Starcraft CD starts downloading mp3s without my permission. (ha ha. sorry).
Re:But who listens to Celine Dion anyway? (Score:2, Funny)
I hate to stereotype, but at the risk of doing so, I'd wager that Mac users are more likely to listen to Celine Dion than otherwise.
Pooling from all of the computer users I know - if that's any decent demographic - Linux users would most certainly not fall under the Celine Dion fans. Windows users, it seems, tend to be more alternative, pop, rap, ad nauseum. And finally, Mac users are more oldies, soft rock, etc. This of course is NOT any real indication of what people listen to; not science, just my own personal observations generalized.
I've never seen a person sing "My Heart Will Go On" while recompiling their kernel.
-X
circumvention devices? (Score:5, Funny)
-schussat
Re:circumvention devices? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, 3M is embracing this new product direction.
They have renamed their Post-It product line to Toast-It, making a clear reference to burning, or "toasting," a CD-R.
They have also renamed their popular Sharpie line of permanent markers to "Share-pie," indicating that the markers will enable purchasers to share music.
:)
Re:Be careful (Score:5, Funny)
To hardly seize: With a simple felt marker you outwit Sony Music & CO and notice your right to a backup copy.
Take that Sony Music & CO, I hardly seize you with my simple felt marker and notice my right to a backup copy! You have been outwitted!Re:For everyone saying "I don't like Celine Dion" (Score:5, Funny)
alt.binaries.mp3.soundtracks. 8*)
SealBeater
New Names (Score:5, Funny)
CC - Crash Circle
"CD" - Quote-Compact Disk-Unquote
ICD - Imposter Compact Disk
FD - Fool's Disk
ID - Incompatible Disk
SF - Sony Frisbee
CC - Celine Coaster
MW3 - Mommy, Why Won't it Work?
RCD - Record Companies Downfall
18POS - $18 Piece Of Sh*t
SLS - Sony's Last Stand
PD - Poo Disk
Any suggestions?
Someone please call the English Police (Score:5, Funny)
Somewhere a 4th Grade English teacher is crying, and doesn't know why.
Re:Be careful (Score:2, Funny)
Make your time!
Poor i-Macs... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:circumvention devices? (Score:4, Funny)
Damn you and your superior legal system snobbery.
Everybody stock up on Sharpies! (Score:5, Funny)
Local busineses were shocked today when all 2.5 million office supply stores were simultaneously served with a cease and desist order from the RIAA and MPAA banning the sale of any type of felt tip marker. Lobbyists for the media industry successfully bribed and/or threatened a number of local politician, who in turn passed legislation banning the manufacture, sale, or possession of any device on grounds that it violates the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
"This is a great day for freedom in this country", stated I. P. Freely, chairman of the House Committee On Media Graft and Campaign Finance. "No longer will reckless hoodlums and terrorist be able to hold our great media industries down! Already these 'media terrorists' have been implicated in causing a downturn in music sales, a deepening of the U.S. recession, balding, impotence, and dandruff. These terrorists are a threat to the very foundation of this nation. Have I said terrorist enough yet? Terrorist terrorist terrorist!"
A small group of bewildered secretaries and office workers were rounded up by jackbooted thugs and herded into "terrorist containment vehicles" (which resemble black vans) as they went into office supply stores in downtown L.A. to buy Sharpies. "Obviously these media terrorists were bent on destroying Sony Music with these devices", said one S.W.A.T. team captain as he twirled a Sharpie in front of cameras. "Don't worry folks", he said, "you're safe now."
When interviewed on the street, many people expressed delight at the actions of the MPAA and RIAA.
"I'm so glad that these hideous terr'rist folks have been rounded up", says Eva Beaver. "Who knows what they might've blown up with their terror weapons. Next it could be planes slamming into buildings!"
Opposition to this new law is expected to be light, say prominent Washington lawmakers. Naysayers will be rounded up and shot on sight, further adding to the desire to keep people from pirating music and movies with felt tip pens.
Spokesmen for Sanford, the company that manufactures the Fully Automatic Terrorist Media Stealing Assault Weapon (formerly known as a Sharpie Marker) could not be reached following a disastrous fire and explosion at every single one of their manufacturing plants.
Re:For everyone saying "I don't like Celine Dion" (Score:5, Funny)
Then they came for Celine Dion, and I did not speak out because I'm lukewarm about Celine Dion.
Then they came for Episode 2, and I did not speak out because I'm not really a Star Wars fan.
But THEN they copy-protected that CD of "Richard Stallman sings Tom Lehrer..."
watch out following translated instructions (Score:4, Funny)
"Then schtick ze blow torchen up your assen-holen, and ge-crank that mutterfikken all ze way uppen-leder-hosen."
Re:Oh for goodness sakes! (Score:5, Funny)
Or perhaps you need beat the living shit out of the fuck-heads who cavalierly take it upon themselves to fuck with your hardware. Then kill their extended families, burn down their houses with their corpses inside, and piss on the ashes.
Or that paper clip thing might work too, I don't know.
Hole punch... (Score:5, Funny)
Magic markers to avert copy protection schemes... I love low-tech solutions to high-tech problems.
Obligatory AYB bit... (Score:4, Funny)
In A.D. 2002, War was beginning.
Mac Hacker: What happen?
User: Somebody set us up the Celine Dion Not-CD
Programmer: We get signal
Mac Hacker: What!
Programmer: Main Screen turn on
Mac Hacker: It's You!
R.O.S.E.N.: How are you gentlemen?
R.O.S.E.N.: All your CD-ROM drive are belong to us.
R.O.S.E.N.: You are on the way to destruction
Mac Hacker: What you say?!?!
R.O.S.E.N.: You have no chance to hack make your time
R.O.S.E.N.: HA HA HA HA....
Mac Hacker: Take off every Not-CD
Mac Hacker: You know what you doing
Mac Hacker: Remove Not-CD
Mac Hacker: For great justice
NO, USE A DR. DRE ERASE MARKER (Score:2, Funny)
Floppy Drive Firmware (Score:2, Funny)
DMCA says it's a felony to fix your Apple ... (Score:5, Funny)
Apple knows [apple.com]. You have three non-pull-apart options.
[options deleted]
Well, let's see...
The crud they put on the disk locks up the Apple when you try to play it. Thus...
This is "technology" that "effectively prevents" unauthorized copying.
Breaking your computer is part of the correct operation of this technology, so
Fixing your computer is "circumvention" of "technology" that "effectively prevents" unauthorized copying, a felony under the DMCA, and
Apple's post telling you how to fix your computer is "trafficing" in circumvention technology, also a felony.
Quick! Call the FBI! (And ask Adobe for the phone number of the appropriate person to call. B-) )
We hear you brother... (Score:2, Funny)
...and all the music I buy is only every played at work (or occasionally in my car) - my girlfriend doesn't like my prediliction for Swedish death metal...(fancy that!), but I won't code to anything else
Re:circumvention devices? (Score:3, Funny)
I am sorry for the problem(s) that I have written into my messages. Down here in Afghanistan, we can't get Sharpies or Sanford markers, so I have no way of knowing the correct brand that I should have put in my messages.
Please excuse this!
I now must go and watch my DiVXes on my C-64 and play Final Fantasy X! Also, I have a question about Linux on quad-processor machines. I hope you can help me!
Thank you!
Junis from Afghanistan
Re:Oh for goodness sakes! (Score:2, Funny)
Don't even get me started on how they don't include a punch-card reader, and it doesn't have a single vacuum tube!
Technical document translation (Score:5, Funny)
- They find the line distant up to two centimeters from the outside edge. Draw now with the pin a tangential line, which covers the dividing line accurately, into which outside range project, but does not affect the last audio TRACK. A sticking tire helps as ruler.
I followed these directions and my Celine Dion disk is now stuck in a tire heading east on I-10 at about 75 mph. I feel better already.Try the result out. If it did not fold, the line covers either the dividing line not completely or lies over the last audio trace - here geht's around tenths of a millimeter. Then you wipe away to the pro copying bars with a damp speed and correct after.
Does that mean black markers are forbidden now? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Apple Responds w/ KBA (Score:3, Funny)
No one's getting killed.
That's all.
Re:Legality? (Score:2, Funny)
If some iMac owner accidently puts one of these CD's in the drive and send the thing to kingdom come, didn't Sony just damage their computer with malicious intent?
Not that I agree in any way shape or form, but Sony's defense will likely be something along the lines of:
Why get a CD when glue works just as well? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Apple Responds w/ KBA (Score:2, Funny)
Awesome, where can I get some?
And remember, kids... (Score:3, Funny)
Celine Dion kills an iMac.
Please, think of the iMacs.
Re:Be careful (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I like the bit about the Warranty there (Score:5, Funny)
Also, please note-- Automobiles should never crash, no matter what happens on the road. That's taught in every first year driver's education course I've ever seen, and it goes double if you are driving an expensive car.
Re:I like the bit about the Warranty there (Score:4, Funny)
$18 (Score:2, Funny)
Good for them.....I am glad they are finally getting the price more inline with the actual costs!
Cheers
Re:Class Action Lawsuit! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Apple Responds w/ KBA (Score:2, Funny)
(*not*)^2 == (*not*)(*not*)
So you're saying it should corrupt firmware, etc.?
Alternatively:
(*not*)^2 == (*not*)(*not*) == (*^4)(n^2)(o^2)(t^2), but that makes even less sense.