lol, well if THIS doesn't smack of desperation, then I don't know what DOES!

[Arky]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2320755.stm

I'm particularly fond of the following quote:

"Lavinia Carey, director of the Alliance Against Counterfeiting and Piracy, said the EU copyright directive was soon expected to outlaw or place restrictions on the manufacture and sale of technology that could be used to crack encryption systems that protected DVDs and CDs. "

( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1336496.stm )

Well I guess that means the days of the humble personal computer are numbered then. Yeah, right... :rolleyes:

People like Lavinia make a laughing stock of themselves if they cannot even educate themselves enough to know that it was a LEGITIMATE manufacturer (Xing) who was (albeit inadvertantly) responsible for the CSS code being leaked (poorly protected 'backdoor' in their DVD player software, leaving it open to disassembly and hacking, if memory serves me correctly). Furthermore, "technology that could be used to crack encryption systems that protected DVDs and CDs" is invariably (always..?) freeware anyway. Is it just me or is this a case of talking a talk that cannot possibly be walked??


Arky ;o)

[auenf]

but in politics, it sounds good, and thats all it is, good PR for the polititions.

Enf...

[mikeathome]

... THEY don't know what they're doing, but they try to do it the right way OR least it can be interpreted to be the right way, philosophically said ...

What a stupid waste of resources; DRM is dead just before it has been established, or do you believe sufficient people (to pay all the development costs) will purchase SAT receiver, DVD recorder, Harddisk and stuff which can't be used to copy, I doubt it...

'nough said,

mike

[Justinus]

They can't do much at this stage, just an outline, because they have to settle down that customers can do their own back up of what they buy, such as DVD or CD with appropriate purposes. In that case, descrambling and by-pass security technologies are still needed. It's contradiction! ;)

[cypher_soundz]

This is stupid , most of the people that record movies are insiders i.e cinema managers etc ...a harddrive is alot easier format to copy from then reals ...and this is going to stop piracy how...? they need to go back to sleep and give us the money for telling them that it wont work EVEN before they develop it ;) there are many other ways for pirates to "get their hands" on new movies besides recording them at the cinema IE Screeners or dvd copys send for testing/factorys etc ... have there never been to asia? this will never cut piracy down by "50%" as they predict!
Just My 10 pence ;)

[auenf]

Originally posted by cypher_soundz
This is stupid , most of the people that record movies are insiders i.e cinema managers etc ...a harddrive is alot easier format to copy from then reals ...and this is going to stop piracy how...? they need to go back to sleep and give us the money for telling them that it wont work EVEN before they develop it ;) there are many other ways for pirates to "get their hands" on new movies besides recording them at the cinema IE Screeners or dvd copys send for testing/factorys etc ... have there never been to asia? this will never cut piracy down by "50%" as they predict!
Just My 10 pence ;)

well, they arent saying a hdd based format, but it seems they are going to change the Hz that its displayed at so, its going to film on a camcorder like a monitor will film on a camcorder.

Enf...

[cypher_soundz]

One of the first films to be screened in this way was Toy Story 2, which was played from a computer hard disk rather than projected using 35mm film.

sorry wrong end of the stick :p ...in fact its a whole different stick! not even the same type of tree :D