[Free-sklyarov-uk] Article on Cactus Shield

[Stephen Nicholson]

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From: "Ian Firla" <ian at maul.deepsky.com>
To: <free-sklyarov-uk at xenoclast.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:14 AM
Subject: [Free-sklyarov-uk] Article on Cactus Shield


>
> 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.

Not true. The author said "It turns out that the DVD drives in the systems
we tested see through Midbar Tech's copy protection"

The drives he tested. Not all drives. Mine for instance can't DAE rip the
cactus protected disks.

And didn't the article say that although he couldn't play the first track he
could in fact rip it? He got lucky in his hardware combinations IMHO.

Stephen