Software Beats All CD Copy Protection
Will Knight,
New Scientist,
Apr 09, 2004
My first radio had the ultimate in copy protection: it had no recording device whatsoever. My first copying system, therefore, consisted of putting a tape recorder near the radio speaker and pressing 'record'. Later, I discovered I could patch the earphone output into the microphone input and improve the quality of the sound. I was exploiting what may be called the 'analog gap' and it is the existence of this gap that ensures that no copy protection will ever be successful. At some point, the content must be heard or seen by humans, and at that point, it is vulnerable. This is the same vulnerability exploited by the unCDcopy program described in this article, which uses the analog output of a CD player to create a new digital file. Via NewsScan Daily.
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