Dvorak on New Copy Protection Scheme for Music CD’s
Once again the music industry adds some form of copy protection that hurts normal consumers that buy CDs, and does nothing to stop hackers from stealing music. They just don’t get it! Who wants to buy a music CD that installs software on their PC that does who knows what. What about Mac or Linux users?
The just released “Stand Up” CD by the Dave Matthews Band is encrypted so that you can’t play or record it on your computer unless you download a digital key from SunComm. When you do get the digital key, it only lets you play downloaded .wma files…