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JVC Announces Technology To Prevent Software Copying

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-better-than-dongles dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "JVC and Hudson soft Co. of Japan have created a technology that they claim to have tested on 200 CD-ROM devices that prevents users from copying software CDs. They plan to have special encryption keys hidden in software and which are pressed onto CD-ROMs and which can not be read with ordinary procedures. They claim that the location, length and number of embedded keys can vary making it more difficult to hack."

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  1. Here we go again by Rupert · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If I can read the contents of the disk, I can write it to another disk. If I can't read it (with my existing hardware and software) then it's broken.

    Besides, how many warez d00ds are actively swapping copied CDs, anyway? Isn't it all ISO images in these days of broadband?

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  2. prevention by Satai · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ok, if anybody here knows more than what the article says -- presumably, the key will be accessible through direct-level calls to the CD-ROM to read specific tracks; what is to prevent the user from either intercepting these calls or monitoring usage of the CD-ROM, in order to determine where the keys are placed on the CD? I imagine an API implementation like WINE would be able to intercept these calls, with parameters, to find the specific locations.

    But, I assume, this has been thought of by JVC. Why wouldn't it work?

  3. Re:Backups are a non-issue. by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "It is NOT your choice what laws you are going to follow and which you are going to ignore."

    Mr. Lincoln said it better:

    "...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people..."


    The laws (being used against the people) are unfair. I want to rip my Matrix Revisited DVD to my computer so that I can test 'greenscreen compositing' using footage the DVD contains. This is for educational purposes as it directly pertains to my job as an animator. The laws that used to allow me to do this have changed. All this because the *AA is unwilling to change their business plans for fear that they'd only make a fair profit instead of an extortionary profit.