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Copy Protected CD's from BMG

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Doctor V:

quote:Originally posted by KiDwithIsSuEs 00:
Ripping is quite easy they wont stop it unless some shit will be added to longhorn and some people with crach through it anyway
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Absolutely.  M$ has about proven themselves incapable of making software without bugs and security holes to be exploited by hackers and crackers everywhere.

The goal, or dream, of the media companys and M$ is or at least was to make it so all computers have a section of the hard drive that has DRM components built into it.  From there they could make it so that hardware drivers like speaker drivers or whatnot would require an OK from the OS before they started working.  In fact they could do a heckuva lot to control what users do with their computers.  Stopping CD rippers and really whatever else they want from working without an ok from windows.

NeMeWaHa:
Try this:
 - Download and install the File Monitor from www.sysinternals.com.
 - Download any AVI file.
 - Run Filemon filtered to show just the activity on your AVI file.
 - Right-click on the AVI. Don't bother to do anything else.
 - Note that components of the Microsoft Installer kick in and start scanning that AVI for digital watermarks.

Cute, eh?  An installer secretly becomes part of DRM in your system, and you could have downloaded it with anything. I find it's quite interesting that XP actively resists all attempts to remove or disable that puppy. It even works in Win95, though you can at least disable the spyware aspect by getting rid of MSISIP.DLL and putting "del c:\windows\system\msisip.dll" in autoexec.bat.

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