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[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.

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[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.