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SVP : More Video Anti-Copying Technology

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they're-against-otan dept.

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?"

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  1. "Black boxes" are designed to foil the masses by kcbrown · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ...and not the technologically adept.

    That's because people who are technologically adept and who have sufficient resources are quite rare. Only someone who can hack the hardware would be able to grab the original digital content from a properly-designed black box.

    I suspect that hardware like this will, in time (if not immediately), be used to enforce pay-per-view or something like that for permanent media. From the info page:

    The basic control paradigm for SVP is "Content X for Device Y in Time window Z. " This means that content X can be viewed only on the target (approved Y) device and only during the broadcaster-specified time window (which can range from 'immediate view only' until 'forever' Z).

    Yep, sounds like pay-per-view to me.

    It really is only a matter of time before everything that's available falls under the control of something like this...

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  2. Re:From the Web Site by Baricom · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Okay, how about: "I don't buy from people who try to squeeze out every last bit of producer surplus, forgetting that customer goodwill generates repeat sales and word-of-mouth advertising"?