Digital copy prot3ction (fwd)
Douglas L. Peterson
fnorky at geocities.com
Sat Feb 21 10:40:57 PST 1998
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:41:16 -0600 (CST), you wrote:
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>Forwarded message:
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>> Subject: Digital copy prot3ction
>> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:16:49 -0600 (CST)
>> From: ichudov at algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
>
>> I can hardly believe that any of these schemes are undefeatable.
>>
>> As soon as the CPU starts talking to a video and sound board,
>> this whole thing becomes easily breakable. All one needs to do is
>> to capture the signals that go to these boards and re-record them.
>>
>> Right?
>
>> The proposed technology would have no effect on televisions, video
>> cassette recorders or computers already in use, the paper said.
>
>I suspect that this part is the key, what they will propose is some
>mechanism to alter the chipsets from the one currently implimented. Expect
>them to impliment something similar to the DAT tape systems where the machine
>won't execute a copy function if it sees the correct signal.
I do hope it is like the DAT tape systems. They are relatively easy
to get around.
-Doug
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