David and Goliath - low tech beats high tech....

Companies keep trying to come up with ways to keep people from satisfying their basic human cravings. The biggest battle going on right now is over copy protection for music CD's and DVD's. Sony, and a lot of other major companys have spent a bundle on high tech solutions to keep pirates from making illegal copies.

And, as you might expect, as soon as they roll out a new protection scheme someone comes up with a way to break it. Kind of reminds me of Prohibition....

In this particular case, the Sony protection scheme can be defeated by a 50 cent marker available at Office Max, or your local 7-11.... No wonder Sony isn't returning calls from reporters....


Sony's "copy-proof" CDs cracked with marker pen
- posted by tempusmaster @ 9:13 PM