Archive for December 15th, 2005

Make Your Own Copy-Protected CD with Passive Protection

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

While not as openly hostile as the kind of stuff that Sony was doing with their active-rootkitting stuff, it’s actually not that hard to create a CD which many applications find unrippable: wander over to Ed Felton’s Freedom to Tinker blog for instructions on how to Make Your Own Copy-Protected CD with Passive Protection.

Note: this really only works for Windows. You can rip these CDs using Macs or Linux just fine. Way to go Microsoft!

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Podcasts? Humbug!

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

Penguin Books is releasing the classic Dicken’s tale A Christmas Carol as a podcast. Go here and you can subscribe to it, or just download the mp3 files. They even have an AAC enhanced version for the iPod. Neat! Via BoingBoing

And if you need some more audio, you could still avail yourself of the classic Christmas serial The Cinnamon Bear.

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