Ludwig Van Mozart used our newssubmit to tell us about an Interview with Noam Zur, vice-president of Midbar. Midbar is the company behind the copy protection Cactus DataShield (CDS). The vice president of the company admits that there are compatibility problems with their protection and that the protection can be broken.
He however claims that he could make uncopyable CDs, but he must admit that if he would make them, they could probably only be read by a small amount of CD readers. The latest version of CDS (200.4.0) should already incorporate some new protection features. Below a quote, badly translated with babelfish:
Your copy protection does not seem as effective as you announce it. We managed to duplicate CD protected by Cds-200. How do you explain that? |
That does not surprise me. We never declared that our system protection against the copy was sure to 100 %. But it's not easy to make a copy. It is only possibleunder particular conditions, with certain associations of reader of CD, chipset and software. It is far from being a general information.
Why that?
We could harden our system anticopie to approach a reliability of 100 %, but that would be done with the detriment of compatibility with the reading devices. The effectiveness of our system rests on a compromise between compatibility with the readers and the reliability of protection.
Copy protections are indeed meant to make it as difficult as possible to make a copy. Cactus Datashield will probably stop indeed a lot of people from making illegal copies of CDs, but unfortunately also people who only want to make a backup. But then there is our Audio Forum for the solution!
Source: 01.net.com
