Music Piracy/Copy Protection

akamil writes, "Cirrus Logic and Intertrust Technologies Corp. are developing a hardware solution to stop music piracy. Here's the San Jose Mercury News story on it. "

Comments

Putting an end t this shit.

[Weezul]

We need a way to get the word aout about this shit and prevent customers from buying the players. One option is to go to stores and place stickers on the products which say "Warning this product is SDMI compliant and/or limits the consumers fair use rights" and explains to people why they want an mp3 player which dose not take away their rights.

This articles proposed solution culd be as vulnerable as DVDs, but I would not count on it. It sounded like the song is to be decrypted on one device only, meaning that you will lose your whole music collection when you replace your player. This will piss consumers off a lot more, but it is a stronger system then what DVDs used. Actually, this system would incurage the one-hit-wonders, i.e. why should I go out and find a good band to lissen to when I will loses the music eventually by upgrading players?

The good news is that that they will probable put this chip in the computer somelace where the datastream after the chip can be cought and they can not just stop selling CDs and tapes.