29 Dec
2000
29 Dec
'00
1:57 a.m.
This garbage will never fly.
I'd buy *LOTS* of non-CPRM drives right *now*,
as they will be in very high demand around this
time next year, if these clowns get away with this.
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:48:37 -0600 (CST) Paul Thompson
<thompson(a)mail.athenet.net> writes:
>
> Here are some (OT) disturbing developments in the (OT) field of IDE
> cloning.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15620.html
All of the serious pirates I know only have ONE major hardware area of
spending, hard drives and CDR. If this was seriously coming, they would
just go shopping.
Besides I don't see how this could get around a trivial solution of
encapsulating or even just encoding the data with a software layer.
The spooky notion would be that the "data" is NEVER available. You buy a
new CD, and the music is all encrypted, with a "key" that gets passed
directly to playback hardware so that the music "data" never exists where
it can be directly accessed. Blocking access to the analog data I don't see
as likely, but watermarking that data is VERY likely.
I only can hope the unwashed masses see this for the trap it is and just
walk away like they did with the pay per view DVDX stuff.