New HP, Philips, DRM technology
p2pnet.net News:- Almost exactly a year ago, Hewlett-Packard boss Carly Fiorina took the stage with U2 guitarist The Edge, Eminem manager Paul Rosenberg and Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Universal Music Group’s Interscope label, and other Big Music luminaries and promised to build, license or acquire the best content protection technologies to stop its customers from “illegally” downloading and sharing copyright material.
She also said there’s a law that states, “our sense of right and wrong does not evolve as fast as our technology. Just because we can do wrong doesn’t mean we should. Just because we can steal music doesn’t mean we should.”
She called it Kazaa’s Law.
Now HP and Philips say they’ve developed a DRM application for DVDs to stop users from burning “protected” DTV broadcasts. “The encryption system will be built into next-generation DVD players as well as media,” says Extreme Tech, going on:
“Without a player and disc using the new Video Content Protection Scheme (VTCS), DVD burners won’t be able to record digital video under the new regulations. That will mean that the enormous installed base of DVD players and burners may be forced into obsolescence, executives said.
“The new Video Content Protection Scheme scheme is designed to work hand-in-glove with the new FCC ‘broadcast flag’ initiative, scheduled to begin on July 1, 2005.”
And VCTS has been approved by the FCC, the CableLabs consortium of cable providers, and is under consideration by the Japanese ARIB standards body, according to Extreme Tech.
The so-called ‘broadcast flag’ initiative is a wide-ranging scheme dreamed up by the entertainment industry and allied hardware and sofware manufacturers to remotely control precisely when, where and by what means people use their ‘product, at the same time garnering priceless confidential ‘consumer’ information.
Ex-MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) boss Jack Valenti once called it, “access control or redistribution control”.
But, says the story, VCTS isn’t foolproof.
“For example, the VCTS the DRM solution will only work with the single- and dual-layer versions of DVD+R and DVD+RW media, not the “-R” counterparts,” says Extreme Tech. “Furthermore, analog video will not require the protection scheme, meaning that video stored on analog VCRs could be free of the copyright restrictions. On the other hand, if either digital video or a digital connection is used, the VCTS scheme will be used. That will also include PCs, where content could be piped over the Internet.”
However, “In large part, the issue with the new players will solve itself,” Chris Buma, an A/V program manager with Philips Consumer Electronics, is quoted as saying. “It is a restriction, but a restriction that can be overcome.”
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See:-
protection technologies – Hewlett-Packard loves Kazaa, p2pnet, January 14, 2004
protected – New DRM Scheme Could Make Current DVD Players Obsolete, Extreme Tech, January 5, 2005
January 6th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
The proof is in the pudding, they say.
So is the key in the players.
For the player to function the key need to be available to it.
You can use impossibly strong encryption but if you have the key it doesn’t matter.
And the encryption could then be decoded by software on regular “old” players.
And since it can, then it will be.
You just need enough people with enough motivation do realise anything.
This is the concept of critical mass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass
January 6th, 2005 at 11:22 pm
She (Carly Fiorina) also said there’s a law that states, “A CORPORATE sense of right and wrong does not EXSIST, ONLY STOCK VALUES AND THE BOTTOM LINE MATTER, PERIOD. Just because we can do wrong doesn’t mean we should. Just because we can RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER OUR CUSTOMERS AND THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS doesn’t mean we should. BUT WE WILL.
Okay, so I changed the quote a little…
January 9th, 2005 at 7:21 pm
I think what you are trying to say is any attempt by the entertainment industry to try their hand at drm there will be other savvy people to crack the technology to undo the drm.
What new generation dvd players?
the last time i looked you can go over to walmart and the price of dvd player is in the fucking toilet.
In case nobody’d heard the hardware industry in in the middle of a nasty recession.
The cost of a plain dvd player keeps dropping.
It’s much the same way in the computer and general electronic equipment arena.
So my question is do you think anybody in the dvd player industry is going to risk marketing and selling a drm laden piece of equipment that costs more than a present day dvd player and somehow they have some drug induced idea that they will pass the cost of the technology involved for tv broadcast drm to the consumer ? It’s much the same way why cds and dvds are not selling well these days.
EXPENSIVE UNCOPYABLE JUNK……
As it stands today the dvd industry has problems with overstocked dvd players (THE OVER INVENTORY BLUES) and vicious pricing war competition among themselves.
The law of supply and demand BABY!!
A WIN -WIN THING FOR CONSUMERS !!
Besides if they go through their neferious plans there always be websites like doom9.net to supply software that would defeat broadcast drm on a computer tv receiver card and it would be out of the corrupt and bought off with kickbacks and bribes brain dead american goverment and the dmca’s meathooks.
LOL BABY !!!!!!!
January 9th, 2005 at 7:22 pm
I think what you are trying to say is any attempt by the entertainment industry to try their hand at drm there will be other savvy people to crack the technology to undo the drm.
What new generation dvd players?
the last time i looked you can go over to walmart and the price of dvd player is in the fucking toilet.
In case nobody’d heard the hardware industry in in the middle of a nasty recession.
The cost of a plain dvd player keeps dropping.
It’s much the same way in the computer and general electronic equipment arena.
So my question is do you think anybody in the dvd player industry is going to risk marketing and selling a drm laden piece of equipment that costs more than a present day dvd player and somehow they have some drug induced idea that they will pass the cost of the technology involved for tv broadcast drm to the consumer ? It’s much the same way why cds and dvds are not selling well these days.
EXPENSIVE UNCOPYABLE JUNK……
As it stands today the dvd industry has problems with overstocked dvd players (THE OVER INVENTORY BLUES) and vicious pricing war competition among themselves.
The law of supply and demand BABY!!
A WIN -WIN THING FOR CONSUMERS !!
Besides if they go through with their neferious plans there always be websites like doom9.net to supply software that would defeat broadcast drm on a computer tv receiver card and it would be out of the corrupt and bought off with kickbacks and bribes brain dead american goverment and the dmca’s meathooks.
LOL BABY !!!!!!!
January 9th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
I think what you are trying to say is any attempt by the entertainment industry to try their hand at drm there will be other savvy people to crack the technology to undo the drm.
What new generation dvd players?
the last time i looked you can go over to walmart and the price of a dvd player is in the fucking toilet.
In case nobody’d heard the hardware industry in in the middle of a nasty recession.
The cost of a plain dvd player keeps dropping.
It’s much the same way in the computer and general electronic equipment arena.
So my question is do you think anybody in the dvd player industry is going to risk marketing and selling a drm laden piece of equipment that costs more than a present day dvd player and somehow they have some drug induced idea that they will pass the cost of the technology involved for tv broadcast drm to the consumer ? It’s much the same way why cds and dvds are not selling well these days.
EXPENSIVE UNCOPYABLE JUNK……
As it stands today the dvd industry has problems with overstocked dvd players (THE OVER INVENTORY BLUES) and vicious pricing war competition among themselves.
The law of supply and demand BABY!!
A WIN -WIN THING FOR CONSUMERS !!
Besides if they go through with their neferious plans there always be websites like doom9.net to supply software that would defeat broadcast drm on a computer tv receiver card and it would be out of the corrupt and bought off with kickbacks and bribes brain dead american goverment and the dmca’s meathooks.
LOL BABY !!!!!!!