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DVDs w/ Built in USB Ports for Copy Protection

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the april-fools-coming-early-this-year dept.

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)."

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  1. Re:Stupid stupid idea by networkBoy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hence the continued popularity of soft ice.
    Install soft ice, insstall program, trap dongle call with soft ice, done.

    Note that if you do a re-install you will need the dongle again, but at least for day to day operations no more 3-7 dongles packed onto the parallel port conflicting with each other.
    -nB

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    whois gawk date unzip strip find touch finger mount join nice man top fsck grep eject more yes exit umount sleep dump