Carabella Pulls It Off
Posted: June 20th, 2002 Comments OffWith Carabella, the EFF has come
up with a fantastic way of demonstrating how incredibly frustrating it’s getting to
try and buy music that you can use. In fact, I don’t think they’ve made it frustrating
enough: The highest score is achieved through Carabella buying an import version of
the CD at her local music emporium, but that assumes that a) you have easy access
to purchase an import copy that b) has no copy-protection.
In other copy-protection news,
to the Guardian (“Strike Back”, fourth one down) queries the wisdom of Sony
Music releasing CDs that can’t be transferred to a Sony digital music player using
Sony’s own software. (And a couple of pages back, Ben
methods of capturing well-known Linux journos using only a Wi-Fi base-station)