Lithium is an alkali metal, and therefore highly reactive when introduced to water, quickly turning into hydrogen gas and lithium hydroxide. If the barrier between battery and the outside failed, fire is a likely outcome.
There is absolutely no way to create a data format that makes it impossible to extract a perfect unencrypted digital representation of that content. At some point, no matter how much encryption and encoding and authentication you add to the disc, the consumer is going to be able to play it in all its digital glory. The mere fact that this is possible means you have to have access to the unencrypted data, which can always be copied.
They're employing encryption techniques in a field it wasn't suited to address. PKI is meant to be used to allow a user to authenticate that the content on the disc came from a trusted source. It fails when you try to forcefully disallow reading content from a disc if the source (in the case of DVDs, the player. in the case of an XBox, the disc) isn't trusted. This can generally be circumvented by a nerd with a soldering iron.
Hollywood is spending millions on making it more difficult to emulate an authenticated player, but it's fundamentally futile. You only need to circumvent the authentication once. From then on, you can release software that can do it for anyone that wants it, as long as there's a player on the market that gives you software access to the encrypted content.
If a company creates a product, puts it out on the market, and another company takes the idea and releases their own product, how is it possible for the second company to be rewarded the patent for the ideas they borrowed? Isn't there a provision in patent law that prevents this from occurring?
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Lithium is an alkali metal, and therefore highly reactive when introduced to water, quickly turning into hydrogen gas and lithium hydroxide. If the barrier between battery and the outside failed, fire is a likely outcome.
There is absolutely no way to create a data format that makes it impossible to extract a perfect unencrypted digital representation of that content. At some point, no matter how much encryption and encoding and authentication you add to the disc, the consumer is going to be able to play it in all its digital glory. The mere fact that this is possible means you have to have access to the unencrypted data, which can always be copied.
They're employing encryption techniques in a field it wasn't suited to address. PKI is meant to be used to allow a user to authenticate that the content on the disc came from a trusted source. It fails when you try to forcefully disallow reading content from a disc if the source (in the case of DVDs, the player. in the case of an XBox, the disc) isn't trusted. This can generally be circumvented by a nerd with a soldering iron.
Hollywood is spending millions on making it more difficult to emulate an authenticated player, but it's fundamentally futile. You only need to circumvent the authentication once. From then on, you can release software that can do it for anyone that wants it, as long as there's a player on the market that gives you software access to the encrypted content.
Will the company be called "Union Aerospace Corporation?"
If a company creates a product, puts it out on the market, and another company takes the idea and releases their own product, how is it possible for the second company to be rewarded the patent for the ideas they borrowed? Isn't there a provision in patent law that prevents this from occurring?