Hiawatha Bray’s story in today’s Boston Globe reports on SunnComm’s response to Alex Halderman’s dissection of SunnComm’s CD copy-protection technology.
”There’s nothing in his report that’s surprising,” said SunnComm president Bill Whitmore. ”There’s nothing in the report that I’m concerned about.” Whitmore said his company’s system is simply supposed to give honest music lovers a legal way to make copies for personal use, not to stop large-scale piracy.
This is hard to square with SunnComm’s previous assertion that the technology offers “an incredible level of security”, that it “met the toughest standards”, and that it passed tests in which the “security level offered by the MediaMax technology was pushed to the limit.”
It’s also worth noting that if your goal is indeed “to give honest music lovers a legal way to make copies for personal use, not to stop large-scale piracy”, you can achieve this goal perfectly by offering ordinary, unmodified CDs.
UPDATE (Oct. 10, 10:50 AM): Don’t miss this satirical “story” at Kuro5hin.
