Articles posted on October 11th, 2003

The latest on CD copy protection

Saturday, October 11th, 2003 • 6:44 pm

The whole story about the Princeton University Ph.D. student “discovering” the simplest procedure to disable the latest form of CD copy protection (just hold down the Shift key) is really laughable. When is the recording industry going to realize that the audio CD format was simply not designed with copy protection in mind and that […]

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András Puiz on “internal multitasking”

Saturday, October 11th, 2003 • 1:38 am

My Applelust colleague echoes my earlier column on “memory protection for documents” with a new column on what he calls “internal multitasking“, i.e. the ability of a single application to work on several different documents simultaneously. As he says: Heck, if I can convert a song to MP3 and burn a CD simultaneously while Photoshop […]

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