[Slaggg]

Taken from today's (Oct 10, 03) LA Times Business pages:

Three days after a Princeton University graduate student posted a paper on his Web site detailing how to defeat the copy-protection software on a new music CD by pressing a computer key, the software maker said it would sue him.

SunnComm Technologies Inc. said Alex Halderman reached "false conclusions" in the paper, which said SunnComm's MediaMax CD-3 software could be blocked by holding down the "shift" key on a computer keyboard as a CD using the software was inserted into a disc drive.

SunnComm, which trades on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board, said it had lost more than $10 million of its market value since Halderman published his report.

[descry]

LIES!!!!

[Sergeant_Scrotum]

i find all of this compleatly halarious. biggrin:

[Sirus]

lol yup, Rock on Halderman rock:

[Miscguy]

I will personally donate to his cause. For the sheer hilarity that companies pulled out of purchasing shitty software that was so fucking easy to bypass a 3rd grader could have figured it out by mashing keys on the keyboard while loading a disk.

[SoLiDUS]

Nice "copy" protection ...

When will they realize that [unless they are physically present to install the
software with the ONLY copy] there will never be an efficient way of stopping
us from doing it ?

eek:

[Bazooka_Joe]

In other news, Rush Limbaugh admitted to being addicted to pain killers, and plans to retire his radio career.