[ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

2003-10-10 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Raj Mathur wrote: [Cross-posted] Don't know whether to laugh or cry when reading this! SunComm, who make a copy protection mechanism for audio CDs, is suing a student who has revealed how to bypass the copy protection mechanism: by the complex process of holding down the Shift key when

[ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

2003-10-10 Thread ANUJ SEHGAL
If anything those guys should be thanking the kid for exposing such a huge security hole. Kinda stupid of those people to let something like this to remain in their copy protection system. Anuj ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

2003-10-10 Thread Ambar Roy
If anything those guys should be thanking the kid for exposing such a huge security hole. Kinda stupid of those people to let something like this to remain in their copy protection system. IMHO the users who use such a stupid copy protection system deserve what they get. They clearly bought

Re: [ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

2003-10-10 Thread ANUJ SEHGAL
IMHO the users who use such a stupid copy protection system deserve what they get. They clearly bought into marketing hype and definitely didn't verify properly if the claims are valid. It also looks like that this system won't work with newer versions of windows or on windows machines where the

Re: [ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

2003-10-10 Thread Raj Mathur
Ambar == Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anything those guys should be thanking the kid for exposing such a huge security hole. Kinda stupid of those people to let something like this to remain in their copy protection system. Ambar IMHO the users who use

Re: [ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

2003-10-10 Thread Raj Shekhar
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:50, Raj Mathur wrote: OTOH, the sheer stupidity of the copy-protection mechanism developed by SunComm is still moot :) Good news. I just read in the dailyprincetonian that they are not suing John Halderman. The reason the CEO gives is that he does not want to stop