[sdiy] WTO + WIPO = DMCA (fwd)

[Rainer Buchty]

> or.. buy the CD, record it digitally, burn a copy, and then return the
> CD to the store, saying it's defective... it won't play in your
> computer...

Works on your current equipment, but let's think that SSSCA thingy to the
end.

(1) Your CD player has to be "hack safe", so everything is sitting in one
monolithic chip - on one side the CD drive is attached, on the other the
output jacks. No way to touch some I2S bus internally.

(2) Your player has to implement digital security stuff (which your
recording equipment has to understand and obey to). "Something" is coming
out in a poorly encrypted way (hacking that and publishing your results
makes you a terrorist...), so no way to record the digital stream.

Concerning current CD protection schemes: We recently tried one of those
"CDs" (I mean, it's crap on them anyway, but for some strange reason that
never ever could be the main point with ever dropping record sales...) in
CDROM drives of various age - and guess what: Older drives accepted it,
newer ones refused it.

To me that seems that CDROM manufacturers already implement protection-
obeying stuff in their firmware.

The drive which refused to work with that copy-protected CD was a Pioneer
DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-500M 010 (that's what /proc/ide/hdc/model tells
me), one that works was a MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8585.

Rainer

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