Jazz Odyssey

This just in from Techtree:

The research note on the Gartner site says that what makes the Sony BMG incident even more unfortunate, is that the DRM technology can be defeated easily. The user can simply apply a fingernail-sized piece of opaque tape to the outer edge of the disc, rendering session 2 – which contains the self-loading DRM software, unreadable. The PC then treats the CD as an ordinary single-session music CD, and the commonly used CD “rip” programs continue to work as usual. (Gartner emphasizes that it does not recommend or endorse this technique.)

That said, there is apparently no truth to the rumor that MacGyver was recently hired by Sony/BMG to oversee version 2.0 of their copy protection technology.