Scotch Tape Stymies Sony Copy Protection | The Coffeehouse

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This is forcing users to go on bit torrent or whatever else is out there just to be able to play music on their portable devices.

Shame on DRM, it is the cancer of the online distirbution system.

Maurits

DevilsRejection wrote:

Shame on DRM, it is the cancer of the online distirbution system.

Thought that was piracy.

dahat

Sounds like a DMCA violation to me.

Somehow... I expect that using the black permanent marker would work on this as well... or if those who found the weakness of this system wanted to set themselves apart by using a different method.

DevilsRejection

Maurits wrote:

DevilsRejection wrote: Shame on DRM, it is the cancer of the online distirbution system.

Thought that was piracy.

Depends who you ask.

W3bbo

dahat wrote:

Sounds like a DMCA violation to me.

Somehow... I expect that using the black permanent marker would work on this as well... or if those who found the weakness of this system wanted to set themselves apart by using a different method.

How would a black permanent pen work though?

Sony's Playstation CDs are opaque black plastic, yet they work fine in their consoles.

dahat

W3bbo wrote:

How would a black permanent pen work though?

Sony's Playstation CDs are opaque black plastic, yet they work fine in their consoles.

Different levels of opacity I’d expect.

I must admit I don’t know all of the details, but there was an earlier copy protection schemes from back in 2002 IIRC including Cactus Data Shield 100/200 and Key2Audio that was used to ‘protect’ a number of CD’s and that was beaten by simply using a permanent marker to cover up the evil track.

ScanIAm

W3bbo wrote:

dahat wrote:
Sounds like a DMCA violation to me.

Somehow... I expect that using the black permanent marker would work on this as well... or if those who found the weakness of this system wanted to set themselves apart by using a different method.

How would a black permanent pen work though?

Sony's Playstation CDs are opaque black plastic, yet they work fine in their consoles.

Sony playstation CDs are black plastic, but the data side is definitely reflective. I doubt that 'scotch' tape would work since the laser could see through it, but 'duct' tape should work.

I don't know, however, if black, 'sharpie' ink would fill in the pits on the cd...it is very dangerous to unbalance a CD and then spin it at high revolutions.

harumscarum

After discovering the cds that had this protection I would recommend a hammer instead of the scotch tape.

ZippyV

The PS1 discs just behave like normal discs in a cd-rom drive. If they contain songs I can even play them in Mediaplayer.

Karim

harumscarum wrote:

After discovering the cds that had this protection I would recommend a hammer instead of the scotch tape.

LOL great list...

...but it seems like there's some kind of subliminal message Sony was trying to send us, with album names like:

Suspicious Activity?
The Invisible Invasion
Nothing Is Sound
Phantoms
Robbery
Get Right With The Man
King's Record Shop