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Posted by Doug Jacobs on 08/08/06 17:25
In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Joshua Zyber <joshzyber@comcast.net> wrote:
> If region coding is eventually implemented, consumers "demanding" hacked
> players won't mean much of anything. The new formats have much more
> complex DRM and copy protection that will prevent discs from playing if
> the machine is modified. I know someone will chime in with "Hackers will
> hack anything. They always do", and maybe that will happen eventually,
> but in this case it'll take a long time. (And no, I'm sorry, that
> screenshot trick doesn't really constitute "cracking" HDCP.)
There can be other ways of bypassing DRM that doesn't involve directly
cracking the format.
Anyways, I agree with you that the screenshot trick doesn't mean they've
cracked HDCP. For one thing, they're working to make future players not
compatible with screenshots (so you can't grab the frames) and for another,
who in their right mind would want to edit the thousands and thousands of
screenshots in order to reassemble them back into some viable video format?
Yeah, it's a cute parlor trick, but nothing more.
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