Re: <nettime> Marker Beats Sony CD Protection

["Derek Holzer" <derek.holzer@balie.nl>]

Not only can this protection scheme be beaten with felt-tip or post-
it, but it also actually causes physical damage to PCs and jams 
the CD drives of new iMacs. All around egg-in-the-face for Sony!
derek

From:
http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUT
H=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=53255

Friday 10th May 2002   4:30pm 
  
Celine Dion unleashes wave of destruction on Mac users 
  
My heart will go on, but not my iMac...
Please don't hurt me Celine 
  
Canadian songstress Celine Dion is causing Mac users even more distress
than normal by rendering their brand new iMacs unusable. Celine's latest
CD, A Day Has Come, is one of a number of recent album releases that
features the controversial copy-protection technology, which prevents it
from being played or recorded in a PC. Last month, Celine Dion fans were
warned that playing the CD on a PC could cause the machine to crash and
possibly damage the firmware.

However, it transpires that if the Canadian warbler's disc is placed in a
new flat-screen iMac, the CD can't be removed or the computer restarted.
The machine then has to be sent for repair, which means you've got to
return it to Apple and ask its technicians to kindly remove the Celine
Dion CD from the drive.

According to Mac User magazine, an Apple dealer confirmed to the Campaign
for Digital Rights that playing the disc in an iMac will result in the
machine having to be sent for repair. Other titles to feature the
technology include White Lilies Island by Natalie Imbruglia, White Ladder
by David Gray, the Star Wars Episode 2 soundtrack and All this Time by
Sting.

 
 
On 22 May 2002, at 11:38, Steven Meinking wrote:

This news is actually somewhat old already, it's been run through Reuters
and has appeared on Slashdot twice, but it hasn't been run by the list and
I'm interested in what the rest of you think. Sony's new cd protection
scheme can be beaten by a marker.


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