Dvd Chips 'to Kill Illegal Copying'

[Tweet]

Worth a quick read.............All about bugging discs or is it just a little too late?

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=37134

C.M

[momaw]

Worth a quick read.............All about bugging discs or is it just a little too late?

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=37134

C.M

Interesting, but basically it says the chip in the film checks the chip in the disc and if there is a mismatch it can have playback refused.

Sounds an awful lot like region coding but with chips. How hard would it be to "accidentally damage" these chips.

I must say I am very concerned by their definition of piracy.

By the way the system works, burnt discs would still play as they have no chip refusing playback.

However, as is blatantly said in the article, a legally purchased original disc could be denied playback for a region mismatch. Now if they claimed this was region coding enforcement, I would be miffed but could understand it. Instead they are calling it piracy. Since when is buying and attempting to playback an authorised original disc piracy? Are they gonna send federal agents around to knock on my door for my pirate activities?

[AndrewW]

Interesting, but basically it says the chip in the film checks the chip in the disc and if there is a mismatch it can have playback refused.

Sounds an awful lot like region coding but with chips. How hard would it be to "accidentally damage" these chips.

I must say I am very concerned by their definition of piracy.

By the way the system works, burnt discs would still play as they have no chip refusing playback.

However, as is blatantly said in the article, a legally purchased original disc could be denied playback for a region mismatch. Now if they claimed this was region coding enforcement, I would be miffed but could understand it. Instead they are calling it piracy. Since when is buying and attempting to playback an authorised original disc piracy? Are they gonna send federal agents around to knock on my door for my pirate activities?

I wouldn't be too concerned, if your player doesn't have the technology to read the 'chip', then its not going to make any difference.

Can you really see the cheapy players made in taiwan/china wasting money to implement this when they don't implement region coding, or even stop upscaled output over component ?

Andrew.

[momaw]

I wouldn't be too concerned, if your player doesn't have the technology to read the 'chip', then its not going to make any difference.

Can you really see the cheapy players made in taiwan/china wasting money to implement this when they don't implement region coding, or even stop upscaled output over component ?

Andrew.

Oh I'm not remotely worried about this. Just some pertinent points on the story I thought.

[eleventyseven]

Worth a quick read.............All about bugging discs or is it just a little too late?

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=37134

C.M

I haven't read the article yet but really, what's the point. Any digital rights management can be broken. I can't think of a "so called" universal encryption method that hasn't been cracked (although I could be wrong). It's just one's and zero's... eventually someone's gonna crack it be it with a mod chip, decryption algorithm, etc, etc.

It's scary to think what encryption methods might be used down the future to enforce everyone to buy their own copies... biometric maybe :ph34r: . I'll probably be dead by then...

[Nullack1503559755]

DRM requires the trusted computing platform to be properly secure.

This one has many obvious exploits like:

1. Using a legacy player that doesnt support it

2. Patching the firmware of the payer to ignore it