Latest Failed DRM Debacle

Filed under Copyright by adam | October 8, 2003 | 1 comment

This just in from BNA’s Internet Law News:

NO SHIFT IN CD COPYING
A Princeton graduate student says he has figured out a way to defeat the MediaMax CD3 software, which is supposed to keep music CDs from being copied on a computer. John Halderman said the MediaMax CD3 software could be defeated on computers running the Windows operating system by holding down the Shift key, disabling a Windows feature that automatically launches the encryption software on the disc.

More details from news.com and Wired. Pretty amazing stuff—defeat DRM with the “shift” key!