In order to control content access and delivery, the MPAA is working on (recently patented) secure digital tv/monitor interfaces which send data in encrypted form from a computer (or game console) to the monitor, which means the following:
CSS is used on the physical recording (DVD)
A second encryption is performed inside of the DVD player or computer's video adapter, to prevent copying (re-digitizing) the analog RGB
Decryption is performed by the tv/monitor of the "secure" digital input before display on the LCD/tube
No matter how much you encrypt/decrypt this data, there are at least 2 points along the way where the raw RGB is available:
After DeCSS and before encryption by the video card
After decryption in the tv/monitor and before it hits the analog tube control.
This only makes coyping inconvenient, but will certainly make ordinary use more complicated and expensive.
Used to be, the government was concerned with providing access to technology (like TV) to the widest possible audience using the most straightforward, most easily implemented solutions to encourage proliferation of new technologies.
Nowadays, it really seems like the government is a puppet of anyone waving enough money in front of capitol hill.
That's progress for you.
@home, working on my manifesto...
In 1984, Kernighan & Pike saw this coming...
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In the Epilogue of their book, The UNIX Programming Environment, Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike were not as arrogant to think UNIX would live forever, but did have this to say:
"The principles on which UNIX is based--simplicity of structure, the lack of disproportionate means, building on existing programs rather than recreating, programmability of the command interpreter, a tree-structured file system, and so on--are therefore spreading and displacing the ideas in the monolithic systems that preceded it. The UNIX system can't last forever, but systems that hope to supersede it will have to incorporate many of its fundamental ideas."
So long as this statement holds true, I'll gladly work with any future system which provides this set of core ideas.
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This reminds me of the mythical ASCII control character EOU (End Of User), which will make a computer terminal explode...
In order to control content access and delivery, the MPAA is working on (recently patented) secure digital tv/monitor interfaces which send data in encrypted form from a computer (or game console) to the monitor, which means the following:
No matter how much you encrypt/decrypt this data, there are at least 2 points along the way where the raw RGB is available:
This only makes coyping inconvenient, but will certainly make ordinary use more complicated and expensive.
Used to be, the government was concerned with providing access to technology (like TV) to the widest possible audience using the most straightforward, most easily implemented solutions to encourage proliferation of new technologies.
Nowadays, it really seems like the government is a puppet of anyone waving enough money in front of capitol hill.
That's progress for you.
@home, working on my manifesto...
In the Epilogue of their book, The UNIX Programming Environment, Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike were not as arrogant to think UNIX would live forever, but did have this to say:
"The principles on which UNIX is based--simplicity of structure, the lack of disproportionate means, building on existing programs rather than recreating, programmability of the command interpreter, a tree-structured file system, and so on--are therefore spreading and displacing the ideas in the monolithic systems that preceded it. The UNIX system can't last forever, but systems that hope to supersede it will have to incorporate many of its fundamental ideas."
So long as this statement holds true, I'll gladly work with any future system which provides this set of core ideas.
Gotta put in a plug for Re-Volt!!!!
It's one of the few reasons I still use Windoze.
www.re-volt.com
(no affiliation, just a fan)