The Shift-Key Affair.

Shift-Key Case Rouses DMCA Foes. A student finds he can disable copy protection on CDs by pressing the Shift key. The company that makes the software threatens to sue for revealing the fact. Critics say this is exactly why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act should be rewritten. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]

I am not a lawyer, but these news stories certainly make it sound like SunComm got caught selling crappy, practically non-functional copy-protection software to a record label - software that only keeps out the honest people who would never think of stealing music in the first place. These are the people who won't make copies of the music even now that they know the not-so-secret handshake.

It must be terribly embarrassing to be exposed like this. SunComm is probably the one that should worry about getting sued -- by their customers, if not by their shareholders.

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