{"id":1540,"date":"2003-10-07T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/07\/anti-pirating-tech-my-cat-could-break\/"},"modified":"2003-10-07T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T13:03:00","slug":"anti-pirating-tech-my-cat-could-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/07\/anti-pirating-tech-my-cat-could-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Pirating Tech My Cat Could Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n

A new
\n technology that’s supposed to help music companies fend off illegal file
\n swappers can be defeated literally by the touch of a button, according
\n to a Princeton University researcher.<\/p>\n

The technology is designed to work only with computers using Microsoft
\n Corp.’s Windows operating systems. Users of Apple Macintosh or Linux
\n computers can copy the disks without restriction. <\/p>\n

And so can Windows users, if they disable a standard feature of Windows
\n called "autorun." This feature causes a disk to start up as
\n soon as it’s inserted into the computer’s CD-ROM drive. The MediaMax
\n software is installed when that happens. If autorun is switched off,
\n MediaMax will not be activated. If users want to leave autorun switched
\n on, they can bypass it when running a MediaMax disk simply by holding
\n down the shift key for a few seconds after inserting it. This prevents
\n the MediaMax software from loading. <\/p>\n

by Hiawatha
\n Bray in the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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