11-12-2003, 01:56 AM
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,...tw=wn_tophead_6
I give it about 32 hours from the time its released before its cracked. Last time sony released a CD with copy protection on it, it was cracked almost as fast as it was released. A magic marker was used to bypass the copy protection. And it also caused lots of problems on peoples computers.
Putting copy protection onto a CD that still has to play in old regular CD players is useless. Old CD players can only view the data a certain way. Anything different then that and they will not be able to read the CDs right.
Copy protection is a joke. I have NEVER seen any copy protection that has actually worked for more then 48 hours after its first released. I've worked on idea for copy protection (because of some of the programing I have done in the past) and I basically just gave up on it because soon as I thought up a great idea for protection, I thought of ways around it.
I give it about 32 hours from the time its released before its cracked. Last time sony released a CD with copy protection on it, it was cracked almost as fast as it was released. A magic marker was used to bypass the copy protection. And it also caused lots of problems on peoples computers.
Putting copy protection onto a CD that still has to play in old regular CD players is useless. Old CD players can only view the data a certain way. Anything different then that and they will not be able to read the CDs right.
Copy protection is a joke. I have NEVER seen any copy protection that has actually worked for more then 48 hours after its first released. I've worked on idea for copy protection (because of some of the programing I have done in the past) and I basically just gave up on it because soon as I thought up a great idea for protection, I thought of ways around it.