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Shift key breaks CD copy locks

A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anticopying measures being tested on CDs by BMG–and they’re as simple as holding down a computer’s Shift key.

In a paper published on his Web site this week, Princeton Ph.D. student John Halderman explained how he disabled a new kind of copy-protection technology, distributed as part of a new album by BMG soul artist Anthony Hamilton. [News.com]

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