Posted by Alpha on 09/25/05 07:11

"poldy" <poldy@kfu.com> wrote in message
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> In article <Xns96DB85A811F46stile@129.250.170.91>,
> Howard <stile99@email.com> wrote:
>
>> You seem to be under the impression every individual disc in the world
>> will
>> have an individual key. I, however, highly doubt it. And even if this
>> were the case, then you only need to crack that key once.
>>
>> Whatever stupid scheme the studios puke up, the discs will be on the
>> streets of China within minutes of release. Period. Anyone who thinks
>> this isn't possible clearly hasn't been paying attention.
>
> The keys are supposedly revokable and renewable. That isn't to say they
> can't be hacked but rather that they've obviously thought about past
> copy-protection schemes which failed. BTW, MS and other tech companies
> are very involved in putting together this scheme, not just the studios.
>
> As for Chinese piracy, supposedly for Blu-Ray, the discs will have to
> have a BD-ROM mark of some kind. Plus the prohibitive costs of Blu-Ray
> replication may discourage the Chinese pirates, at least initially.
>
> HD-DVD on the other hand touts how cheaply production lines could be
> upgraded from DVD production lines.

However, HD-DVD recently agreed to the extra layer of internet server
connection verification ...

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