[SGVLUG] semi-OT: DRM rootkits et.

[John E. Kreznar]

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"Emerson, Tom" <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> writes:

> BMG sounds familiar -- wasn't this "done" a few years ago, and the
> way around it was to hold the SHIFT key down when loading the CD so
> that the "autoplay" function wouldn't execute?

That was then.  This is now.

> As I recall, the older software installed a device driver that "did
> something" to your system so that you couldn't read the disk "as
> data", but could play it "as audio".  This time around it sounds
> like they are "including" a convenient audio-player application that
> coincidentally happens to be the only player capable of reading &
> deciphering whatever the actual "digital" content of the disk might
> be.

Yep.

But is there anything to prevent mount(8)ing the CD and simply
cp(1)ing its content?  Or if not that, then dd(1)ing its content?
Either way, the driver and player are then available for study at
one's leisure.

- -- 
 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
 To "reverse engineer" something is to come to comprehend it, so what a
EULA really does is to forbid comprehension.  For this they charge money?!

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