XCP DRM Defeated by a "Piece of Tape"

Vnunet.com has a very interesting aritcle about another XCP discovery. It isn't a new feature of the XCP rootkit, but the discovery that a very old anti-DRM trick still works.

Researchers at Gartner released this information just today.

Applying a piece of opaque tape to the outer edge of the disk renders the data track of the CD unreadable. A computer trying to play the CD will then skip to the music without accessing the bundled DRM technology.

"After more than five years of trying, the recording industry has not yet demonstrated a workable DRM scheme for music CDs," Gartner concluded in
a newly published research note.

The use of a piece of tape will defeat any future DRM system on audio CDs designed to be played on a stand-alone CD player, the analyst said.

How can these DRM scheme really be worth all the money, if they are easily bypassed by a peice of tape, a magic marker or the "SHIFT" key??