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DVDs w/ Built in USB Ports for Copy Protection
An anonymous reader writes "Aladdin has come up with a new way of restricting the data stored on optical discs. It's 'XCD' format has a chip built directly into the disc and which fits into a USB port. So, a user needs to plug the disc into their computer to access a cryptophic key before being able to use the data stored on the disc (presumably in some sort of proprietary player)."
the reap3r BSD's
"This sort of stupidity needs to be nipped in the bud; the idiot executives who spend millions on these systems and millions more buying laws to force them on us, need to learn that no DRM scheme will last against the concerted effort of thousands of people."
Force them on you? What did they do? Come over to your house and held a gun to your head saying "you better buy our products, or you're gonna get it". The only force I see is those who can't say NO to something and one can't blame the world for that issue.
BTW DRM don't need to protect against everyone, any more than the police need to catch all crimminals, or Linux security needs to be perfect.
"All DRM is broken, it's just a question of how obnoxious it is to legitimate users."
Steam and iTunes seems to work fine. The only one's bitching are this forum, and that's nothing new.
"It's fundamentally flawed, irretrievably broken, and it doesn't matter if they put the decryption key on a USB dongle, or a special sector of the disc, or over the Internet."
In other words, it's been broken in the past and will be broken in the future. Your FAITH in technology is par for the slashdot course. Funny how we can't apply that "everything will be broken" to OSS stories.
"Systems that just reek of stupidity, like this one does, should be killed quickly before they can gain any traction."
Yeah! Ranting on a geek forum will solve that. While were at it lets rant on world hunger, and global peace. We should have them by the end of the year at the pace this place works at.