Categories:
Links:
Those who spread the Magic Marker method via Internet news groups or articles are on shakier legal ground, however. Section 1201 also includes a broadly worded "trafficking provision" that forbids the dissemination of copyright-shirking methods. Writers who describe the method could be prosecuted if their work is judged to have no raison d'être other than to aid budding pirates. Slate and other media outlets are in the clear, but the geeks who first shared the felt-tip techniques on alt.music news groups could be in hot water. Bonus Explainer: Another player in the Key2Audio drama who could feel the DMCA's wrath is the smart-ass who recently tried to sell a Sharpie marker on eBay. Describing the marker, he wrote, "For the purpose of scribbling on Sony CDs." That could be construed as trafficking a circumvention device, another no-no according to Section 1201.
Those who spread the Magic Marker method via Internet news groups or articles are on shakier legal ground, however. Section 1201 also includes a broadly worded "trafficking provision" that forbids the dissemination of copyright-shirking methods. Writers who describe the method could be prosecuted if their work is judged to have no raison d'être other than to aid budding pirates. Slate and other media outlets are in the clear, but the geeks who first shared the felt-tip techniques on alt.music news groups could be in hot water.
Bonus Explainer: Another player in the Key2Audio drama who could feel the DMCA's wrath is the smart-ass who recently tried to sell a Sharpie marker on eBay. Describing the marker, he wrote, "For the purpose of scribbling on Sony CDs." That could be construed as trafficking a circumvention device, another no-no according to Section 1201.
Last year, news that record companies were planning to add technology to CDs that would block people from making copies or MP3 files--and in many cases might even prevent playback on computers--sparked considerable controversy online, and even lawsuits. Now major record labels themselves have put the brakes on the drive for copy protection, at least in the United States, even as record stores lobby for the locks to be added as soon as possible. ... But in the United States, the largest consumer market in the world, the silence on the issue is increasingly conspicuous. Universal Music, whose executives led the industry last year by saying they would copy-protect a significant proportion of their discs by this summer, has had only three relatively small releases. ... Others, such as BMG, are more blunt. Labels are leery of the consumer backlash that met even the first whispers of copy protection. Headlines since have not been friendly; reports have focused on cases where copy-protected CDs couldn't be played in PCs, in DVD players and PlayStation game machines and on suggestions they might even damage Apple Computer products.
Last year, news that record companies were planning to add technology to CDs that would block people from making copies or MP3 files--and in many cases might even prevent playback on computers--sparked considerable controversy online, and even lawsuits.
Now major record labels themselves have put the brakes on the drive for copy protection, at least in the United States, even as record stores lobby for the locks to be added as soon as possible.
... But in the United States, the largest consumer market in the world, the silence on the issue is increasingly conspicuous. Universal Music, whose executives led the industry last year by saying they would copy-protect a significant proportion of their discs by this summer, has had only three relatively small releases.
... Others, such as BMG, are more blunt. Labels are leery of the consumer backlash that met even the first whispers of copy protection. Headlines since have not been friendly; reports have focused on cases where copy-protected CDs couldn't be played in PCs, in DVD players and PlayStation game machines and on suggestions they might even damage Apple Computer products.
The felt-tip pen hack may work on audio copy protection products that rely on the single data index copy protection technique. Macrovision’s SAFEAUDIO™ V3 is resistant to this hack approach because we have implemented a tunable multi-layer security solution, which is based upon multiple patent-pending technologies.
Could Philips take on the major labels and win? Yes, it could - but the company may only be hastening the death of the 20-year-old compact disc format." A different look
D4C5CE writes "Following in the footsteps of his famous professor, in his paper "Evaluating New Copy-Prevention Techniques for Audio CDs" (yes, that's pure PS), which is one of many interesting contributions to the 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, Princeton student Alex Halderman takes apart (bit by bit, literally) the "tricks on tracks" employed by the music industry to frustrate fair use."
The technology, called OpSecure from start-up firm Doc-Witness, features a smart card embedded within an optical disc, which can run on conventional PC CD or DVD drives. However the embedded smart card, which is needed to decrypt the disc's content, will frustrate any attempts to copy the disc.
The technology, called OpSecure from start-up firm Doc-Witness, features a smart card embedded within an optical disc, which can run on conventional PC CD or DVD drives.
However the embedded smart card, which is needed to decrypt the disc's content, will frustrate any attempts to copy the disc.
Consumer electronics maker JVC and games developer Hudson Soft have developed a new copy-protection technology that they claim will prevent CD-ROM discs from being copied, the companies said on Wednesday. The technology, called "Root", marks the latest effort by the computer industry to control software piracy through technical means. The Root technology--so named because it is intended to prevent illegal copying "from the Roots up"--uses encryption keys, a method that has been tried in the past. The disc's contents are encrypted, so that it cannot be read without a "key" also placed on the disc. The innovation in this case is that the key is hidden in such a way that it can be read by any CD-ROM drive, but cannot be written by a CD-R/RW drive, so that a copied version of the disc would be unreadable. The key is different for each disc, and is hidden in a different place each time, according to the companies.
Consumer electronics maker JVC and games developer Hudson Soft have developed a new copy-protection technology that they claim will prevent CD-ROM discs from being copied, the companies said on Wednesday. The technology, called "Root", marks the latest effort by the computer industry to control software piracy through technical means.
The Root technology--so named because it is intended to prevent illegal copying "from the Roots up"--uses encryption keys, a method that has been tried in the past. The disc's contents are encrypted, so that it cannot be read without a "key" also placed on the disc. The innovation in this case is that the key is hidden in such a way that it can be read by any CD-ROM drive, but cannot be written by a CD-R/RW drive, so that a copied version of the disc would be unreadable.
The key is different for each disc, and is hidden in a different place each time, according to the companies.
Two California consumers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the major record companies, arguing that copy-protected CDs are defective products that should not be allowed on the market. The case pits Universal Music Group, EMI Music Publishing, BMG Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and the Warner Music Group against the law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which is famed—or, in some quarters, infamous -- for bringing class -- action cases that seek huge financial penalties.
Two California consumers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the major record companies, arguing that copy-protected CDs are defective products that should not be allowed on the market.
The case pits Universal Music Group, EMI Music Publishing, BMG Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and the Warner Music Group against the law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which is famed—or, in some quarters, infamous -- for bringing class -- action cases that seek huge financial penalties.
Digital IP Links Home | Search Links | New Links | Popular Links | Top Rated | Admin Login | Powered by ssLinks v1.22