BMG has been hanging in faithfully with SunnComm, makers of the hapless and much-hacked MediaMax Copy-Prevention System, but it looks as if their relationship has foundered.
Anthony Hamilton’s BMG CD Comin’ From Where I’m From went out under MediaMax protection, only to appear virtually simultaneously on the p2p networks and soon after, John Halderman discovered all you had to do to get around SunnComm DRM was to press the shift key when you were inserting a CD.
BMG band Velvet Revolver issued an album “loaded” with SunnComm anti-copying protection and, “marking a clear step into the mainstream for the controversial technology,” as ZDNet put it at the time. Unfortunately, like Hamilton’s CD, Velvet Revolver’s Contraband appeared almost instantly on the Nets.
BMG has since become Sony-BMG and it seems Sony, the new component, isn’t as enamoured of SunnComm as BMG was.
Read the compete story @ P2Pnet News
http://p2pnet.net/story/3329
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