Sony's Copy Protection Debacle

I don't know what's worse - being one of the largest music labels/distributors and technology companies in the world and implementing a copy protection sceme that renders ten or hundreds of thousands of discs unusable to paying customers, or implementing a scheme so rediculously simple that it is cracked at not cost in minutes and looking like a big fool. Funny that I had read how this works and never even thought of this simple "crack" either. Read the whole article for the details and a laugh...

Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music's (Tokyo:6758.T - News) elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker.

Read the full article at Yahoo News.