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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. redundant by Atilla · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ok, so it's encrypted.. that means, to execute the code, it would have to be decrypted at some point.. so if someone would want to copy that CD, they would attack the decryption routines (their final stages, anyway) instead of the CD media itself, no?

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