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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Shift key breaks CD copy locks
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- Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Shift key breaks CD copy locks
- From: "Dave Howe" <DaveHowe@cmn.sharp-uk.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:42:53 +0100
Tim Saunders wrote:
> Surely Windows violates the DCMA in itself as you can turn off autorun
> therefore by passing the copy protection? Quick get some cops to go
> and arrest the board of Microsoft for selling DCMA violating
> software...
>
> Who has to complain to get the FBI/cops/whoever to arrest someone for
> violating the DCMA? Is it the copyright holder or just anyone? At
> worst all you have to do is pay SunnComm Technologies to protect a
> few copies of you singing in the shower and you will have a valid
> complaint.
Don't even have to do that - just put "ejectcd.com" on a mixed mode cd and
create an autorun.ini to execute it; that is as valid a "copy protection"
technique as SunnComm's
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