[thelist] You can play a song but you can't download it

Dan CRACIUN dcsquare at myrealbox.com
Fri Mar 4 05:11:29 CST 2005


Why bother with the tape recorder sticked to the speakers? You can 
simply use the speaker's exit and plug it to whatever recording device 
you have. Or you can do it the smart way and use a software like 
soundforge to directly record the stream. Both ways will lead to perfect 
copies.
The point is there's nothing you can do to stop a user from making a 
copy of your song once it is on his computer (and it has to be on his 
computer so he can listen to it), if that user really wants to make a copy.

Cheers,
Dan

Ken Schaefer wrote:

>Stephen is both right and wrong. Using current DRM technology, one can
>certainly stop users from making digital copies of documents (including
>music). Without the appropriate license key, the music can't be decrypted.
>Whether or not the content can be intercepted between server and player is
>mostly irrelevant - it isn't useful to anyone.
>
>However there is nothing to stop analogue attacks - you can always copy a
>document down by hand, or snap a picture using a camera. Likewise you can
>hold a tape recorder up to the computer speakers and make a copy that way.
>
>Cheers
>Ken
>
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