Video DRM chips: coming soon?
p2pnet.net News:- NDS, STMicroelectronics and Thomson have banded together to develop new encryption technology.
Their SVP ( (Secure Video Processor) platform would theoretically allow various entertainment and software industry firms to encrypt ‘content’ with their own DRM specs so it could be decrypted by systems with SVP chips.
"The SVP Alliance is open to media and technology industry parties wishing to achieve the broad adoption of SVP content protection technology in digital home networks and consumer electronic devices – such as digital televisions, set-top boxes (STB), PVRs, and portable devices," they say in a statement.
Broadcast Flag, in other words. Dedicated consumer control technology under which Hollywood decides what ‘consumers’ see and hear in their own homes, and remotely shuts down ‘unauthorised’ programming.
"The objective of the SVP Alliance is to adopt, use and promote the SVP standard and develop interoperability with other content protection solutions."
Could this have anything to do with the MPAA’s (Motion Picture Association of America) Scrambled Screeners brainwave?
"SVP creates new opportunities to distribute and package digital content while ensuring that content owners’ rights are protected, and service operators maintain control of the content within and outside their respective networks," say the three ominously.
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See:-
encryption technology - Tech Firms Announce Video Anti-Piracy Technology, Reuters, September 10, 2004
statement – SVP Alliance Launched to Promote Adoption of Content Protection Technology, September 9, 2004
Broadcast Flag – Hollywood – vs – Its Customers, p2pnet, April 11, 2004
brainwave – Scrambled Screeners, p2pnet, April 11, 2004
September 13th, 2004 at 10:40 am
They apparently havent heard of software based chip emulators?
does Virtual PC ring a bell? the joy of software is it can be used to trick programs into thinking one piece of hardware is another.
of course.. this is obviously against the big software manufacturers because of the DMCA.. but what the hell.. lets push video decryption completely into the open source market.