Posted by mechdan on 06/29/06 20:06

123 wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:40:42 GMT, "SBFan2000"
><glenn@glenngriffithNOSPAM.com> wrote:

>>One thing I've learned over many years in the computer/electronic industry
>>is that anything they think up will eventually be defeated. If one smart
>>human thinks it up other can "reverse engineer" it!

>Its covered 3 ways unlike dvd.
>hd-dvd and blu ray have protection on the media itself, burners and
>the players and there is another option they are going to add in the
>future where the player has to be connected up to the internet which
>is the same protection foxtel has. Early foxtel was cracked with gold
>cards. Latest foxtel which has been out all of a year has yet to be
>cracked.

Anything where the player has to be connected up to the internet
will go over about as well as DIVX did. The public may be stupid,
but they're not THAT stupid. And with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray both
desperate to win the format war, neither side is going to shoot
themselves in the head like that.

Besides, requiring an internet connection means that portable
and car players can't work.

For portable and car players to work, there's really no practical
choice but to keep the encryptions codes the same, and to give
each and every playback device a firmware copy of the
decryption codes. That doesn't mean that every Joe Average
with some W4R3Z will be able to rip his HD-DVDs or Blu-Ray
discs--hardware protection on the readers may prevent that.
But it does mean that 733T pirates with mod chipped readers
will be able to, and Joe Average will just have to download
those MPEG-4 reencoded rips over the Internet.

Isaac Kuo

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