DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics

Ed Gerck egerck at nma.com
Wed Jan 8 14:26:33 EST 2003



Nomen Nescio wrote:

> John S. Denker writes:
> > The main thing the industry really had at stake in
> > this case is the "zone locking" aka "region code"
> > system.
>
> I don't see much evidence for this.  As you go on to admit, multi-region
> players are easily available overseas.  You seem to be claiming that the
> industry's main goal was to protect zone locking when that is already
> being widely defeated.
>
> Isn't it about a million times more probable that the industry's main
> concern was PEOPLE RIPPING DVDS AND TRADING THE FILES?

Well, zone locking helps curb this because it *reduces* the market for each
copy. The finer the zone locking resolution, the more effort an attacker needs
to make in order to be able to trade more copies.

Cheers,
Ed Gerck


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