Jeremy Charette
11-22-2005, 05:30 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174400748' target='_blank'>http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174400748</a><br /><br /></div>"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). <br />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." Such simple work-arounds, said Reynolds and McGuire, make Sony's decision to copy protect is music CDs an even bigger mistake."<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/3m66104.jpg" /> <br /><br />Ok, now I officially feel sorry for Sony. Even the world's highest-paid lawyers can't compete with Scotch Tape. :lol: