Posted by Jeff Rife on 12/24/31 11:28

selaboc (c64fan@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> > Your idea would work phemononally well if the discs were actually DVD-Video
> > discs, but they aren't:
> >
> > "The revolutionary product could be on the market as early as next year,
> > with the new DVD players needed to view them."
>
> And how long do you think it will take for some enterprising hacker to
> whip up a ripper program for them?

With no software-based player and a real public-key encryption scheme...a
very, very long time.

Without the accidental release of one master key, DeCSS wouldn't have
been created and we probably still wouldn't have a way to break CSS.

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