Comments on: Bollywood ’secret’ DRM tactic

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:13:12 +0000

Hats off, I hope he is reading. well maybe someone ought to tell him, what a waste. The movies come and go. no remembrance. but hats of to those who actually pay to watcch that stuff

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:24:18 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:15:54 +0000

what i’d like to know is what person would be stupid enuff to even download his movie? he makes worse shit than a horse, pig and diarrhoea suffering monkey combined. they’re just copies of shitty hollywood movies made even more shittier (if that were possible) by his “adaptation for indian audiences” *tries to induce vomiting*
he’d be better off spending all that money in a scriptwriter.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:38:18 +0000

I might be wrong, but this just sounds like the ‘digital watermark’ used in award ceremony preview copies of films. Especially since they talk about tracing the people who make the copy.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:30:24 +0000

Let me guess… you must be from the U.S.A., right?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:16:20 +0000

who the fuck cares about india?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:14:26 +0000

This ’secret code’ scheme isn’t even DRM. It won’t prevent people from making copies of the work. It amounts to just put serial numbers on the prints.

Mr. Nadiadwala boasted, “If anyone duplicates a print, anywhere in the world, we will be able to catch the culprit immediately.” So Mr. Nadiadwala, how is this ’secret code’ going to track down the culprit when it’s on a print that is stolen one dark night from the studio or a freelancer working on it (a la ‘Sith’)? Hide an RFID chip in it somewhere? GPS-enabled celluloid? Or perhaps ‘Flick-Jack’, similar to a Lo-Jack, only it tracks down purloined movies instead of automobiles?

The principal difficulty with developing effective DRM is that it’s a complex solution to preventing a computer from doing something that it does virtually perfectly and incredibly efficiently: Copying an arbitrary length string of 0s and 1s from one location to another.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:58:04 +0000

Yep, what a man can do, a man can un-do. The world has millions of talented people to undo any kind of copy protection.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:47:37 +0000

“And the only ones who’ll mourn its demise will be its shareholders”

I love that last line. sums it all up. Secret DRM? it’ll be broken in 30 minutes by a talented geek.