Someone tell me this is patently ridiculous
From The Register comes the story of SunnComm suing a university student for having revealed that you can get around some copy protection technology by... gasp... holding down the shift key.
Basically, it disables the autorun feature in Microsoft Windows when the CD is inserted which keeps the CD from installing a file on your machine. Personally, I'm annoyed at any music CD that tries to alter my hard drive without my consent. As the Register describes it:
In which case, SunnComm's technology is indeed flawed, and the company can't argue the student has damaged its reputation. We'd say it did that itself by relying on a technology that any user - and indeed many already do - can circumvent perfectly legally. Bypassing Autorun by holding down the Shift key is a documented feature, after all.
Link found from NTK: "They Stole Our Revolution, Now We're Stealing It Back."