[Free-sklyarov-uk] Article on Cactus Shield

Ian Firla ian at maul.deepsky.com
Sun, 30 Dec 2001 06:14:50 -0500 (EST)


Dear All,

Here's an interesting article about Universal's Cactus Data Shield:

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/supergeek/story/0,24330,2391656,00.html

Apparently, DVD drives see through the copyp-rotection. The author was
testing on Windows systems but demonstrated that all computers with DVD
drives were able to play and rip tracks from the protected CDs with the
exception of the first track which remained unplayable.

Ian

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Dr Ian Firla
Robert Graves Trust
St John's College, Oxford
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