Digital copy protection and your right to use what you have paid for

Have you heard the news stories lately about Sony / BGM selling music CD's and DVD movies with what amounts to spy ware on them that installs its self on your computer if you play them and leaves your system open to attack by hackers? Well it has caused quite an uproar in the electronic community and lost of people have made their displeasure known to both companies.

Today I received this tip from a mailing list that I am on and wanted to pass it along to the readers of the blog. Tell Sony to take their copy protection and STICK IT!

Sony BMG Music's controversial copy-protection scheme can be defeated with a small piece of tape, a research firm said Monday in a demonstration of the futility of digital rights management (DRM).

According to Gartner analysts Martin Reynolds and Mike McGuire, Sony's XCP technology is stymied by sticking a fingernail-size piece of opaque tape on the outer edge of the CD.

That, the pair said in a brief posted online, renders "session 2 -- which contains the self-loading DRM software unreadable. The PC then treats the CD as an ordinary single-session music CD, and the commonly used CD 'rip' programs continue to work as usual."

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