CD Copy Stopper

CTho9305 writes "Technology Review has an article about a new CD and DVD copy protection system by Doc-Witness, where the disc itself has a smart card on it. The card checks if a request is valid, and then returns a key to decrypt the contents of the disc. It apparently works with standard drives."

Comments

Nice "haiku", jackass

[Wind_Walker]

You jackass, you have too many syllables in your second line.

New encryption scheme
Sings "Oops, I cracked it again!"
More Britney copies!

Re:Nice "haiku", jackass

[laserjet]

You jackass, you called him a jackass!

You need to train your kids better

[91degrees]

Really. You need to teach them that this is an expensive and sensitive piece of equipment, and it shouldn't be treated like that.

Re:50% below average... not true

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

Let's look at a few IQ's- 90, 90, 90, 95, 100, 180.
With these numbers, the average IQ comes out to be 107.5. This puts 83% of the population to be "Below Average".

It can also work out the other way.
20 (vegatable), 50 (retard), 120, 130, 125, 100, 115, 180.
The average of these numbers comes out to be 105. So that putss 75% of the population above average.

(Grabs the flamethrower)

You fucking moron - did you pay attention to high school math? You don't do statistics with a small sample or you get skewed results.

A large sample would result in a nice bell curve with half of the subjects on one side and half on the other.

Dumbass

Re:who cares about media, the drives will be hacke

[roman_mir]

Yeah, I read the fucking article the first time.
I repeat myself - what's the fucking deal?

Scratch the film with the card ('dongle') off your disc, now your disc is just that - a plain disc with some data (encrypted or not does not matter) on it.

If you can't scratch it - use a black magic marker and draw over the diod that signals back to the reader - and again, you have a simple cd/dvd.