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Student get sued for Shift Key Anti CD-Copy Article

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edited October 2003 in Science & Tech
An update on the news from Wednesday Oct. 8. The student that published an article on how to defeat the "anti CD-Copy" software by holding down the Shift key.... Well, the software company, SunnComm Technologies Inc, is suing him over the article...

[blockquote]In a statement, SunnComm Technologies Inc. said it would sue Alex Halderman over the paper, which said SunnComm's MediaMax CD-3 software could be blocked by holding down the "Shift" key on a computer keyboard as a CD using the software was inserted into a disc drive.

"SunnComm believes that by making erroneous assumptions in putting together his critical review of the MediaMax CD-3 technology, Halderman came to false conclusions concerning the robustness and efficacy of SunnComm's MediaMax technology," it said. [/blockquote]
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/10/10/bmg.protection.reut/index.html&quot; target=blank> CNN Networks </a>

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  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Now thats a steamy pile. Instead of suing the kid, why don't you make copy protection software that WORKS.
  • Mr_BojinglesMr_Bojingles Northern Michigan New
    edited October 2003
    ...but yet there are people on the internet who will gladly teach me(or anyone) directions on how to make bombs? Yet some guy for just telling people to push the "shift" key gets sued? The RIAA are the ones hurting themselves now, not music piracy. You can't go sue your target crowd(or old grannys) then expect your music sales to go up.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I´m not sure if i´m gonna laugh or cry here......Sunncomm won´t survive as thing like this. I better shaddup, i might get sued.

    ROFL!
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Mackanz, friend, I think you and I are going to have a GREAT time laughing at the RIAA at the LAN party. :D
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Man, i am sooo looking 4-ward to the LAN. I better bring my harddrives as well. Lots of games needs to have room right? ;D
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited October 2003
    They're gonna have a hard time suing him for that. Freedom of speech and what not. I can tell you how to do just about anything, you can't sue me for that, you can be sued for doing it...but I don't see how you can be sued for talking about it.

    Thats like preemptive moderating!
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I´m glad i live in the part of the world where you actually have to do something illegal to even have a chance getting sued.
  • SlickSlick Upstate New York
    edited October 2003
    It breaks intelectual properties laws or something...:rolleyes:
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I liked the bombs thing... you can teach it, but not use it or something like that.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    He should just counter-sue them for just being plain stupid. So many ways to argue it, it's not even funny.
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    this is sickening...its not the kids fault that the company was a bunch of bafoons
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