Shift key breaks CD copy locks

[Dial_tone]

A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anticopying measures being tested on CDs by BMG--and they're as simple as holding down a computer's Shift key.

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5087875.html?tag=nefd_top

 

[Devastation]

holy hell

 

[rjl296]

ha ha

 

[Burning_Inside]

wow...Ownage in its simplest form...

 

[Becoming]

When are they going to realized that there will always be a way around it... instead they waste money paying for crap technology like this and insist on further distancing themselves from thier customers.... By the time the younger people in this country get older almost no one will buy music by the convential route simply out of principle- if the record industry is still around by then...