Searching for Lyrics?
Well, get ready for this, as it's now MUCH HARDER to obtain lyrics from the web and copy and paste to a text file for personal use.
Sites like MetroLyrics are starting to encode their lyrics (but not scramble them) in the HTML source and are starting to use Javascript to prevent selection of text. This is pretty much the 2nd instance where Javascript has been used as a cheap form of DRM (with the first being the right-click disabler)
Primarily, CDDB gracenote is the primary user of this crude DRM Javascript technology.
On some sites, NoScript on Firefox is enough to bypass it, but on certain dedicated embeds, if the object is blocked, so is the text.
This is showing how DRM is becoming a nuisance to all consumers, but the Film and Record Industries all back it 100% with stuff like AACS and BD+ on Blu-ray and the infamous Sony/BMG rootkit DRM.
Sites like MetroLyrics are starting to encode their lyrics (but not scramble them) in the HTML source and are starting to use Javascript to prevent selection of text. This is pretty much the 2nd instance where Javascript has been used as a cheap form of DRM (with the first being the right-click disabler)
Primarily, CDDB gracenote is the primary user of this crude DRM Javascript technology.
On some sites, NoScript on Firefox is enough to bypass it, but on certain dedicated embeds, if the object is blocked, so is the text.
This is showing how DRM is becoming a nuisance to all consumers, but the Film and Record Industries all back it 100% with stuff like AACS and BD+ on Blu-ray and the infamous Sony/BMG rootkit DRM.
posted by Jack Zhang at 11/16/2009 10:35:00 PM
1 Comments:
I have also noticed this. I am not that software literate so any tricks around this growing problem or big money cheat would be great.
Oh and I like your blog so far.
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