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SVP : More Video Anti-Copying Technology
rkroetch writes "NDS, STMicroelectronics and Thomson have announced they will develop a new anti-piracy technology called SVP (Secure Video Processor). This will require a special SVP processor in the box to play the encrypted video signal. All those licensing fees for our DVD-ROMs for nothing?"
tv out anyone?
fuckin' bastards....
i'll be sure to avoid anything that has this in it until it's easily bypassed.
of course, given past techniques, that shouldn't be too damn long...
someone's probably already hatching a plan..
Why they always have to call it piracy... Oh well, I suppose I do understand why. I just don't like it.
Yup, the implication is that copying movies and music is a lot like blowing up homes with cannonballs, plundering villages and raping the governor's daughter.
Maybe it's not an entirely fair term.
"I don't buy from people who exploit me."
Now leaving Capitalism. Welcome to denial.
At this point the general befief is that pirates of legend merely sought to share homes, villages and governors' daughters.
or... become an academic and live in a (UK) university - all the benefits of capitalism while living in a pseudo-communist bubble!
When we finally do get those implanted Nikon eyeballs, they'll probably come with anti-piracy chips. (The country-code would be a bitch on business trips.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
AKA the analog hole..
What is your penile percentile?
In "ye olden days" pirates were people who would go to great lengths, working against heavily armed opponents and risking incarceration or worse in order to obtain something that, nine times out of ten, wasn't worth having in the first place.
Thus their ledgendary rum consumption.
Now-a-days it's closer to ninety-nine times out of a hundred, but the principle is the same.
-- MarkusQ
I'm one to say "suck it up" when terms change, like with hacker becomming a bad term. However this is one I say the media industry should get nailed for. Why? Because piracy is still very, very real. In North America and Western Europe we tend to forget about it since we have powerful navies/coast guards that keep our waters essentially free of it.
Well that's not the case in much of the world. There are still real pirates that really do raid ships, rape, kill and steal. We also aren't talking like once every 10 years or something, we are talking about a reasonably common occurace in relation to other violent crime.
Thus I think it is quite stupid, and unfair to those that suffer from real piracy, to equate digitally copying a song to violence on the high seas. When real piracy is dead and gone, then maybe I'll accept the transformation of the term.
I'm not a potential rapist, but I do want one of those funky pirate hats. Hell, maybe even an eyepatch.
Honestly, I'm just in a mood today- read some of my other posts and you'll see. Bored mostly, I suppose. Too much slashdot on the weekend.
Okay, how about this time we wait until AFTER they start using the algorithm before we tell them it's been hacked. I'm looking at you Edward Felton. ;-)
What?! We can do that?! Well where's my governor's daughter!?!
Oh, I mean.... Shiver me timbers! Whar' be thar scurvy landlubber who's fair lass I may be hav'n ta tup? YARR!!
*Ahem* Now if you'll excuse me, my download is just about finished here... time to watch a movie! Now where I put me dish o' popper-corn and mug o' ale? Yarr!
Crafty programmers have discovered ways to crack into DVD players, for example, to make copies of Hollywood movies quickly and cheaply.
You can crack a DVD player to burn discs? That's gotta be one of the sweeter hacks I've heard about. Or maybe by 'crack' the reporter means 'buy professional DVD duplicating equipment'.
It's almost a peaceful feeling to watch the heat death of one's society.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
I guess it would be more acurate to call it Anti-Monk Technology, pirates aren't really famous for copying.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
That is because we dont and we never will. The basic premise of cryptography is that a sender (Bob) sends an encrypted message to receiver (Alice) so that an attacker (Neo) wont be able to read it no matter how hard he tries. Forgetting for the moment the discussion of our ability to encrypt hard enough for a really, really clever Neo, in this case (TV and DVD's), Neo and Alice are the same person. This "only" breaks the whole foundation of cryptography. Not to mention it also presents a gender-bender conundrum.
You don't like it? Well, if you don't like it, what do you want to do?
I want to sing and dance, I want to sing and dance....
120 character sigs suck. Make it 250.
Those thieves BLATANTLY STOLE THE TERM, and probably didn't pay the originators of it for the use of their linguistic properties. It's plagiarism at the very least - why next thing you know, people will be appropriating the narratives of Brothers Grimm and claiming their fairy tales are now "intellectual property".
Bill Stewart
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Remember how DVD's were supposed to be iron proof?
I always thought they were supposed to be bullet clad.
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I noticed it is "copy protected" mark on it. Whops, CD goes back. Voted with my money again and felt good about it.
Drats! You should have taken a few extra seconds to send a clear signal. You should have "discovered" the problem up at the register and canceled your purchace right in front of them, prefferably loudly and within earshot of the manager.
I vote with my dollars as well. I refuse to buy DRM crippled products.
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You monk you! :)
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.