RE: MD: defeating scms possible on some machines was Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?

[Simon Gardner]

>       What is it about what I hear on the minidiscorg site about
> scms that makes
> this certain kind of resister put into the remote input that
> some how pops
> up a menu that lets you shut off scms? Why did the companies make this
> feature built-in, just for this purpose, or does the resister
> specifically
> have something to do with it that the companies never knew.

This worked on early revisions of the Sony MZ-R50. As far as I know, it was
part of the test proceedures for them - it involved using a tool that
slotted in the remote slot.

I'm pretty sure Sony knew about it - although once the end users found out
about it, they removed it to avoid any legal complications.

--
Simon

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