JVC Announces Technology To Prevent Software Copying

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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Re:Backups are a non-issue.

[unicron]

I love Slashdot. Someone comes along, says "Hey folks, you can do it this way and it's still perfectly legal, it's a little inconvienent, but it's legal" and he gets modded down. How I wish I could get through to all of you, honestly. I wish I could convince you that you are not "sticking it to the man" by copying your copy of the Brittney CD. You are not freedom fighters on any level.

It is NOT your choice what laws you are going to follow and which you are going to ignore. Please believe me when I say I'm not trying to troll, because I'm not. But the average mentality of the average slashdot reader is based more on justifying petty theft to themself than it is the honest drive to protect the digital rights of the consumers of the world.

Re:Backups are a non-issue.

[unicron]

I'm glad you honor the memory of people who have known what true suffering is by equating your potential loss of ability to pirate photoshop to a true travesty against man. If it were up to me, I'd find everyone on this planet that has suffered due to slavery in some form of another, and then I'd find the biggest and meanest out of that group, and let them know that some little pissant thinks he knows true suffering because he actually had to buy his software and music. I'll let them know that you think you know what it's like to actually suffer.

And the most fucked up part, is you actually believe that because someone out there might not want you to pirate some game they wrote, or some music cd they recorded, that you know the slings and arrows of a miserable, hellish existence.

I don't know whether to wish true suffering on you, or envy you. If your life has been that small and uneventful that you can honestly believe what you do, then I must choose to envy you, because you have never known suffering on any realistic or recognizeable levels.