[OT] Sony + DRM = RootKit??

[Net Llama!]

On 11/13/2005 03:46 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 03:45 +0000, Jerry McBride wrote:
>> On Thursday 03 November 2005 11:05, Federico Voges wrote:
>> > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051101-5514.html
>> >
>> > I wonder if you can play those CDs using Linux or Mac OS X (probably not).
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Fed.
>> > 
>> 
>> Hi Fed,
>> 
>> They play perfectly under linux. 
>> 
>> On the sage advice of my 12 year old son, I  bought SWITCHFOOT, NOTHING IS 
>> SOUND music cd today. It's on the list of being one of Sony's copy protected 
>> releases and took it home. Once popped into my linux box, I was able to play 
>> it like ordinary music cd's. I was even able to run cdmp3 across the disk and 
>> rip the songs to mp3 and put them on the family music server for my son to 
>> play.
>> 
>> I haven't bother to try this on a windows machine yet, but I HIGHLY suspect 
>> that if you turn off the autorun feature you won't have much problems using 
>> it there too.
> 
> On SUSE 10, if you put the CD in and let it be automounted, you will see
> a number of programs. And a file called autorun.inf.
> 
> If you check in, say, k3b, you will see that the CD is a multi session
> CD. The first session is the music. The second session is a data track,
> which is the file system. As long as you have access to the various
> sessions. you have access to the music direct. If the OS hides the
> sessions, then you are at the mercy of the CD access software.

In the same vein, when Quake4 was released on DVD a few weeks ago, I was 
talking to the 'official' game tester at work, whose job it is to QA all 
new games in Windoze.  Since the data files on the windoze DVD are 
required to play the game in Linux, I asked him if I could borrow the 
DVD to make a copy, and he insisted that it would be impossible to copy 
the DVD.  He kept rambling on about how the copy protection on the DVD 
hadnt' yet been cracked, and I was wasting my time.  I just nodded and 
smiled, and said I'd try anyway.  dd had no problems whatsoever copying 
the entire DVD.  I then burnt the resulting image to a new DVD, and had 
an exact copy.  It blew this guy's mind when I told him afterwards.

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