Macrovision’s DRM family
p2pnet.net News:- You have to give it to the DRM companies. They’re claiming they can stop various kinds of products from being copied. And they’re getting away with it.
Macrovision is the latest firm to offer not just one, but a whole family what it calls “content and software value management solutions” through a licensing program for its VeriBITT family.
This covers solutions, “embedded onto current and next-generation optical discs used to deliver software and multimedia content to PCs, media centers, game consoles, and network-connected digital appliances,” it says.
It’s all achieved through, “optical disc-based digital signature generation; original-disc authentication; data payload protection using obfuscation and application fading; secure pass-through access to data on the disc; and secure, authenticated disc-to-Internet web linking,” it promises.
The problem is – anything which can be seen and/or heard can be copied.
Period.
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March 8th, 2005 at 7:40 pm
And if this Macrovirus protection fails to work correctly for a consumer the burdon of proof that they legitimatly purchased this “protected” prduct falls back to the consumer with Macrovirus sitting back collecting royalties & washing it’s hands.