Re:What Is LibreDrive
by johannes1234321 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @06:20AM
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Sony really did crazy stuff for "copy protection" on their CDs ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
“Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for one of the programs that merely made the program's files invisible while also installing additional software that could not be easily removed, collected an email address from the user and introduced further security vulnerabilities.”
That’s diabolical
Re:What Is LibreDrive
by AtlasBarfed on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:06PM
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It was likely very illegal as well, but you know big company and a legal system that is/was decades behind the state of the art
I noticed a ~1.5cm ring around the outside of the disc was visibly a different colour/texture to the standard audio part; I tried blanking it out with Sharpie which some people online suggested might work, but eventually gave up and contacted Sony to tell them how pissed off I was that they were preventing PC-based music listeners from listening to what they'd bought. They sent back an apology and a new copy of the disk without the DRM/MP3 crap.
I bet LibreDrive might have worked by letting me just read the disc raw and grab the bits I need.