send in your nominations for the "punch in the face" award

[rone]

After a Princeton student figured out that SunnComm's copy protection technology was nothing more than a Windows service and disabled it by booting while holding down the Shift key, SunnComm will likely be forced to sue him because he's obviously smarter than they are.

Comments

[lots42.livejournal.com]

So who are we supposed to be punching? The Princeton student or the anti-piracy coders, who are obviously dumb as rocks?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

While the idea of punching a fancy-pants Ivy Leaguer in the face does sound appealing, in this case i think it's obvious that the target is the stupid corporation.

Foiled!

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

You can't punch a corporation in the face because all evil corporations are faceless! Argh!

[omarius.livejournal.com]

One thing this story makes me consider about the DMCA is:

OK, I just made a cd. My s00per sekkrit copy protection scheme is: this CD cannot be copied unless you put it in a CDRom drive and a blank CD in a CD-RW drive and use some software to copy the CD.

Ha! Now if you do this, I can sue you. If you tell people you can do this, I can sue you. All I have to do is put a sticker on that says "Protected for your sanitization" or some such mess as that.

Omar, who loves his country, and hates his government.

[coldsleep.livejournal.com]

Holy christ.

That requires dumbassitude of a level several higher orders of magnitude than I think I have ever experienced in person. I thought that sort of utter imbecility was purely theoretical. I'm kind of sad that this has been proven wrong...though it's interesting from a objective sort of view.

Ugh.

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

They now say they won't sue (http://news.com.com/2100-1027-5089448.html).