Cryptography Research wants piracy speed bump on HD DVDs

[Bill Stewart]

At 09:08 AM 12/15/2004, Ian Grigg wrote:
>Let me get this right. ...
>...
>A blockbuster worth $100m gets cracked ... and
>the crack gets watermarked with the Id of the
>$100 machine that played it.
>...
>So the solution is to punish the $100 machine by
>asking them to call Disney with a CC in hand?

If you're in a profit-making business of pirating DVDs for money,
then having your $100 DVD burner stop being able to play DVDs
from a given studio is just a business expense.

But if you're a typical hobbyist pirate,
file-sharing your DVDs for free to other people
who are sharing their pirated DVDs,
rather than spending $2 to rent them at Blockbuster,
then it's probably really annoying,
and you're probably out of business with that DVD burner,
though your other $39 DVD player can play them just fine.



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Bill Stewart  bill.stewart at pobox.com 


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