I thought this up a while ago, for some strange reason, after reading about all the steps companies are going through trying to secure High Definition Signals from HD DVD's on PC's.
1.What if some smart scientist/engineer type came up with a chip that can receive it's power from intermmittent exposure to the DVD laser.
2. Imbed/surface mount the chip onto the DVD's near the center hole, but still in the normal readable area of the disk.
3. When the DVD is inserted the laser scans across the chip, thus powering it up, and providing a crypto key, or data stream, or some short "okay this is legit" packet back to the player. Maybe you have two chips linked together somehow (cost prohibitive?) and the second one responds with the passcode.
Or maybe you stop being money grubbers and charge a nominal fee and people don't even bother trying to pirate you stuff
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I thought this up a while ago, for some strange reason, after reading about all the steps companies are going through trying to secure High Definition Signals from HD DVD's on PC's. 1.What if some smart scientist/engineer type came up with a chip that can receive it's power from intermmittent exposure to the DVD laser. 2. Imbed/surface mount the chip onto the DVD's near the center hole, but still in the normal readable area of the disk. 3. When the DVD is inserted the laser scans across the chip, thus powering it up, and providing a crypto key, or data stream, or some short "okay this is legit" packet back to the player. Maybe you have two chips linked together somehow (cost prohibitive?) and the second one responds with the passcode. Or maybe you stop being money grubbers and charge a nominal fee and people don't even bother trying to pirate you stuff r