Shoutbox

Sometimes I wonder if companies only hire people to do this work to keep employment up, there's no point really. There isn't a type of "disk protection" which has ever been foolproof. As soon as a new type of protection came out a load of people try and get around it for fun, all trying to be the first to do it. As soon as one of them works it out, he tells a load of more people on forums, and the method is perfected for easier use. Before you know it every Tom, Dick and Harry is able to get around it. There will never be a form of protection which will remain foolproof.
It'll be the latest craze among piracy folks everywhere, who will be first to find a way around it.
I find it amusing how they haven't gave up on their pointless quests to make piracy like this stop, because they will never perfect anything. Their main flaw is that they underestimate the people who crack it, and they always will, the people who crack it are really quite smart people who can handle things like this easily.
What they need to do is pay these people to work for them, in the perfection of a form of protection, and test it being broken, that way they wouldn't be wasting their time and actually stand a chance at avoiding piracy.

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Originally posted by Ddunk

Theres a specific line you had to srawn, I don't remember where it was

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It was around the edges.
I can't be pestered looking up how it works, but from what I remember it worked like this;
The disks were made with a fake version of the song being placed around the edges of the disk, and loads of blank spaces on the disk, when you played the disks they worked fine because they read only the "real" track, the fake version was untouched, but CD ripping technology read the fake one as well. The marker pen could be used to "black out" the fake version.
It was a bit more advanced than that, but the principle was similar.