mAcOdIn Veteran Posted October 10, 2003 Veteran Share Posted October 10, 2003 You're brilliant. Good job at contributing an almost witty remark and nothing more to the thread.The distribution of information on how to bypass the protection is the violation. Oh, I totally didn't know, thanks for enlightening me. Guess they better come sue me as well because I've been doing that ever since direct X came out and stupid games started autorunning. I give up guys come get me. I don't see how you think this is a legitmate suit. This is a common feature in windows since like 98, maybe even 95. He didn't hack anything, and someone else would have found out anyways. This is nothing more than a company trying to recouperate losses on thier crappy protection scheme and nothing more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graeme_7799 Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 i think he helped the company, more than against it! this is a bad way to protect cd's, and this whole this is rather pathetic. company suing student for pressing shift key... like.. whats wrong with this picture!?!?!? stupid companies and their lawsuits.... READ MY AVATAR AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I"M TALKING ABOUT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacey Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 ouch... poor princeton guy. though i agree, i don't think he should have made that information so wide spread, just tell the company they screwed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EzeWong Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Unfortuantely, Due to copyright laws, Revealing any sort of information technology secrets, Ie. What he did Is an infringement on law, So basically he's Fubared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V3L0C|7Y Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 (edited) No, you see. This is truly the stupidest company on earth, or at least in the top ten. If they really wanted to get some money back for the defeat of their shoddy protection product, they would have sued Microsoft for incorporating such an easy bypass in the world's most used deskop OS. At least then they could use the distribution of software that allows the bypass as an argument. All this guy did was press the shift key and then tell people about it. They probably have about the same chance of winning the suit against MS as they do against this guy. Hopefully not much, but as farked up as the US judicial system is these days you never know. I like my country but sometimes I just hate its government, especially when things like this are allowed to happen. Edited October 10, 2003 by V3L0C|7Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCKing Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Unfortuantely,Due to copyright laws, Revealing any sort of information technology secrets, Ie. What he did Is an infringement on law, So basically he's Fubared He didnt reveal any secrets... he just said that it could be avoided by pressing the shift key, which works with all cds with an autorun... he didnt make software to bypass that, MS did and any windows user could and should know that trick (not really a trick)... its the companies own fault not his. Why dont they sue Apple or Linux users cause their software wont work on those either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeSoul Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 That student got what he deserved. are all linux users like u? he didnt get what he deserves, should the guys who point out vunerabilities in Internet Explorer be jailed for pointing them out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchShrader Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 doesn't it seem a *little* obvious that A. yes it was a violation of the DMCA, (he DID do the distribution) and B. the DMCA is a stupid and pointless piece of tyranny that should rightfully be overturned at the first opportunity (because it has been so obviously demonstrated to be logically UNREALISTIC)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Looks like they dropped the lawsuit. They knew how much negative press they were going to get if the continued through with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRoling Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 No, seriously, what did he violate? He simply could say he was testing the software, and happened to come across this fault in the software. What can they possibly say? He figured out the bug from copying CD's, etc.? Who cares, they will lose this case, I believe, considering the fact that all it was was a paper discussing his findings about the software. He didn't reveal any secrets, it's a ****ing SHIFT KEY. Christ, if that's a secret, then that company should be 6 feet under by now. This is like the hundreds of people who find out these I.E. exploits, gets Microsoft off their asses and does something about it, maybe SunnComm or whatever can do the same and quit their bitching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroChaos Veteran Posted October 10, 2003 Veteran Share Posted October 10, 2003 well this is the funniest thing i've heard all day. stupid companies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerd Rage Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 If the shift key is a security issue.....what about the power button! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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