The really frustrating thing -- for me at least -- is seeing the entertainment industries pull stupid shit like adding intentional data errors to music CDs to "stop them being copied", when it degrades the data, and you know it'll be cracked within five minutes of the first few "protected" CDs hitting CD ripper authors' hands.
Similarly, it bothers me that one of the reasons I don't have widescreen HDTV yet is that movie producers want an uncrackable copy protection system. (Their latest attempt was cracked last week, as you probably know.)
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The real frustration
Date: 2001-08-18 04:46 am (UTC)The really frustrating thing -- for me at least -- is seeing the entertainment industries pull stupid shit like adding intentional data errors to music CDs to "stop them being copied", when it degrades the data, and you know it'll be cracked within five minutes of the first few "protected" CDs hitting CD ripper authors' hands.
Similarly, it bothers me that one of the reasons I don't have widescreen HDTV yet is that movie producers want an uncrackable copy protection system. (Their latest attempt was cracked last week, as you probably know.)