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Student CD Piracy Lawsuit Dropped
The previously reported lawsuit against a US student, who published details on how to circumvent anti-piracy technology on a new CD, has been dropped. SunnComm Technologies, the software company behind the lawsuit, said it didn't want to hamper academic research.
The student found a cunning way to bypass SunnComm's Media Max CD-3 technology, he simply held down the shift key on his computer keyboard. The resulting effect is that the anti-piracy application couldn't install itself due to the autorun function in Windows being temporally disabled, by the shift key action.
[blockquote]The software was used on a CD, Anthony Hamilton's Comin' From Where I'm From, released last month, SunnComm has originally said it was going to sue to Mr Halderman for revealing the secrets of the anti-piracy measures. But following publicity surrounding the case, the company's boss has backed away from the threat of legal action.
"It wasn't our intention to strike a blow against research," Peter Jacobs told the news agency Reuters.
"We sincerely thought that the research was not founded on the premise for which the technology was invented in the first place."
"(The research) doesn't dilute our technology at all, nor does it nullify our technology."
The music industry blames falling CD sales on digital piracy and file-sharing online. It is looking at new technologies to stop what it sees as rampant copying of compact discs and the sharing of those files online. But so far, most technologies developed to protect music against copying have fallen short.
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Source - BBC News
The student found a cunning way to bypass SunnComm's Media Max CD-3 technology, he simply held down the shift key on his computer keyboard. The resulting effect is that the anti-piracy application couldn't install itself due to the autorun function in Windows being temporally disabled, by the shift key action.
[blockquote]The software was used on a CD, Anthony Hamilton's Comin' From Where I'm From, released last month, SunnComm has originally said it was going to sue to Mr Halderman for revealing the secrets of the anti-piracy measures. But following publicity surrounding the case, the company's boss has backed away from the threat of legal action.
"It wasn't our intention to strike a blow against research," Peter Jacobs told the news agency Reuters.
"We sincerely thought that the research was not founded on the premise for which the technology was invented in the first place."
"(The research) doesn't dilute our technology at all, nor does it nullify our technology."
The music industry blames falling CD sales on digital piracy and file-sharing online. It is looking at new technologies to stop what it sees as rampant copying of compact discs and the sharing of those files online. But so far, most technologies developed to protect music against copying have fallen short.
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Source - BBC News
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