the futility of DRM (Re: DMCA Crypto Software)

[Andreas Bogk]

Nomen Nescio <nobody at dizum.com> writes:

> Their system allows things like DVDs to be pressed, distributed,
> sit on shelves, and finally sold, all identical, and to create the
> player-specific watermarks on the fly.

In which case a pirate would of course attack the raw bits on the
disk. Might need some reverse engineering of the drive, though. A
class II attacker could even write a new controller software from
scratch, controlling servos and laser directly.

Andreas

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