Posted by Brenden D. Chase on 08/08/06 18:18

Doug Jacobs wrote:
> 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.

See, but you arent thinking like a bootlegger, because you arent one. I
dont think any of us are. Think mass quantity. Not just a one off so
you can keep a rental. Once you convert the movie from the frames, and
sync the audio back up. You'd be able to copy and sell as many of them
as you want. You've only wasted your time on the first disc. The rest
is just duplication.

It's cause for concern i think.

However, most bootleggers want movies before they come out to the
public. So i'd worry more about the advances of HD camcorders than this
screen shot DRM by-pass.

You'd think if they can make copiers that will not copy money, they can
make a camcorder that disables itself in a movie theater.

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