Re[2]: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil

[Matthew Leeds]

Time for some info. There are a variety of copy control mechanisms being=
used by the publishers of CDs these days. Dragos most likely has run into=
Macrovision Cactus Data Shield. Here's some info:

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/cactusdatashield.cfm
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Specific.asp?ArticleHeadline=3DCact=
us%20Data%20Shield%20200&index=3D0

For those interested in other protection methods you might read this:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jhalderm/cd3/

and this:

http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/

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---Matthew
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>> Dragos Ruiu wrote:
>>
>> >Well I truly regret actually purchasing a copy of the new Beastie Boys
>album
>> >to support them.
>> >
>> >It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection
>system,
>> >that automatically, silently, installs "helpful" copy protection
>software
>on
>> >MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems.
>> >I'm not sure exactly what it does yet, but I am sure regreting actually
>> >purchasing said media now... they don't deserve my money if they choose
>> >to pull stupid stunts like this. Installing software without your
>permission
>> >sounds like viral malware behaviour to me. I certainly hope the AV
>companies
>> >put signatures into their products for this crap.
>> >
>> >They include some sort of uninstaller buried on there for Windows, but
>> >I see no such thing for MacOS. If anyone has disassembled the
>> >aforementioned malware already and can save us some time with
>> >instructions on how to remove it... thanks in advance.
>> >
>> >caveat emptor,
>> >--dr

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:37:46 +0200, Jonas Mixter said:

> The intresting thing is that this CD didn't carried the 'Compact disc
> digital audio'-logo anywhere. And the medium for the audio wasn't called CD
> anywhere, not on the disc itself and not in the booklet.

This is intentional - the logo is a trademark owned by Philips, which doesn't allow
its use on anything that doesn't follow all the appropriate format standards
for the CD format.

Several copy protection schemes rely on intentionally breaking said standards with
the hope that the average "audio" CD player won't notice the breakage - Philips
has, and will, sue companies that do that and still label it a CD.

The benefit to the consumer is that if it *doesn't* have the CD logo on it, you
should *immediately* suspect that the disk has major issues......

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[Ross M. W. Bennetts]

[Ross M. W. Bennetts]
I was fascinated to see that this made newscientist:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996063