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Ladies and Gentlemen: Your Latest Stupid Copy Protection Scheme

Filed in archive Household Entertainment by Eric Hanson on October 19, 2006

Ah, copy protection. It's certainly got good intentions, but as countless gamers, movie-watchers and music-listeners can attest, it's just as likely to cause problems for the legitimate owner as it is for a potential pirate. There are, for better or for worse, too many variables when it comes to the hardware to make things work. But people keep trying...

This time around, it's a company called Aladdin who's got a product called an XCD that's basically a CD or DVD embedded with a chip. If I'm reading this NewScientist report correctly, you need to plug in a USB key (that comes with the disc, I guess) to play the CD or DVD in your computer. Yes, you read that correctly: you want to rip the CD you bought (as, you know, you have the legal right to do), you need to plug in a USB key as well as put the CD in the tray. Call me crazy, but I don't see consumers going for this one to strongly. In fact, if this DRM system finds a home among CD and DVD producers links

, it may just kill the CD and DVD as formats in the process.

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