Comment illegal to hold down Shift key? (Score 1) 323
... Chernyak explains how to break current copyright law. All it takes, Chernyak explains, is one finger on the Shift key while you put a CD in your computer, disabling corporate-installed software designed to prevent you from copying music.
The RIAA may want you to think it's illegal to hold down the Shift key, but it's never been decided in a court of law.
If pressing Shift is illegal, is it illegal to disable autorun in the Registry? Is it illegal to insert the CD in a computer that doesn't run Windows?
Even SunComm wisely decided not to sue Halderman who publicized the workaround.
