CD Anti-Copy Protection defeated by a single keypress.

Posted by Les on Monday, September 27, 2004 at 12:42 PM. Read 1619 times. Tags: ,
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Our latest undefeatable CD copy protection being defeated easily story is brought to us by Neil’s World:

I’m totally awed by the copy protection on the new Bowling For Soup album (“The Hangover You Don’t Deserve” ). Upon insertion, it installs a music player which lets you play the songs on the album, and also appears to modify the ASPI layer in Windows, presumably to stop you from ripping the CD. It also includes a copy of the Lame DLL for some reason.

At least, that would happen if you didn’t hold down the SHIFT key to disable autorun when you insert the CD. If you do then you can rip the CD with no problems.

Shhhhh! Not so loud! This is supposed to be a secret!

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elwedriddsche United States Posted on 09/27/2004 at 02:06 PM

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You mean anybody doesn’t have autorun disabled yet?

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decrepitoldfool United States Posted on 09/27/2004 at 02:32 PM

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What Elwed said.  I have never found autorun anything but an annoyance. But it will keep most users from ripping the CD.  What really annoys me is that it dinks around with my system!  What if the changes it makes degrade my system? (which they most assuredly will)

eccod United States Posted on 09/27/2004 at 05:32 PM

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Yikes, I hate autorun *shiver*
Windows XP seems to think it knows how to handle my media better than I do… that annoys me!

It’s definitely within “fair use” to rip a cd to mp3 on your hard drive.
I have at least 8-9 gigs of music from my cds on mine!
There is no reason for them to try and stop you from ripping the cd, and installing a special player is a waste of system resources.
No wonder people don’t have control over their pcs like I do (my pc is my bitch)

And why does it install the lame codec? You don’t need it to play cd audio. Weird…

John Hoke United States Posted on 09/27/2004 at 08:32 PM

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Shhh…

This security system was developed by the same security team that protected the Deibold voting machines, and most Microsloth products.

Security even a chimp can beat smile

I think they also had a hand in the design of the pinto gas tank, but that is still unconfirmed rumor smile

fried.man.designs United States Posted on 10/01/2004 at 04:53 AM

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how dare you mock the pinto.  raspberry

Les United States Posted on 10/01/2004 at 06:19 AM

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Indeed. The Pinto was a perfectly fine single use cigarette lighter.

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