FYI, some forms of private key encryption cannot be broken with any algorithm - ever. only encryption standards where the key is shorter than the message (or the same key is used for multiple messages) can be broken.
1. You only need to play back an encrypted/watermarked audio or video file once to produce an unencrypted and unmarked bit stream. Unless the decryption chip is the same as the D/A chip, there is no way of preventing someone from creating that bit stream.
2. Analog watermarks on audio files that survive transformations such as mp3 encoding/decoding are so limited as to render them useless, I don't think anyone actually needed to waste time on SDMI to find that out.
Will those persons who are getting TV for free please raise their hands?
Ok, so one of you lives on a farm in Nebraska and only gets WCOW and another one lives in Utah and only watches POLY, the Mormon network. All the rest of us are paying between 30 and 90 bucks a month for free TV.
This idiotic way of thinking was tested once by CompuServ and failed miserably.
People will only pay per view if they feel they are paying for something that has a live vs. recorded value (boxing) or if it is porn and they need it at the time. For everything else, there's the flat tax model used by the cable companies - you will pay $35/month no matter how much you view of which channel. Want some more channels? pay more tax! How does the content maker get paid? an independent third party keeps track of the number of views he got.
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FYI, some forms of private key encryption cannot be broken with any algorithm - ever. only encryption standards where the key is shorter than the message (or the same key is used for multiple messages) can be broken.
A couple of facts:
1. You only need to play back an encrypted/watermarked audio or video file once to produce an unencrypted and unmarked bit stream. Unless the decryption chip is the same as the D/A chip, there is no way of preventing someone from creating that bit stream.
2. Analog watermarks on audio files that survive transformations such as mp3 encoding/decoding are so limited as to render them useless, I don't think anyone actually needed to waste time on SDMI to find that out.
Will those persons who are getting TV for free please raise their hands?
Ok, so one of you lives on a farm in Nebraska and only gets WCOW and another one lives in Utah and only watches POLY, the Mormon network. All the rest of us are paying between 30 and 90 bucks a month for free TV.
I will never pay for an online magazine either.
This idiotic way of thinking was tested once by CompuServ and failed miserably.
People will only pay per view if they feel they are paying for something that has a live vs. recorded value (boxing) or if it is porn and they need it at the time. For everything else, there's the flat tax model used by the cable companies - you will pay $35/month no matter how much you view of which channel. Want some more channels? pay more tax! How does the content maker get paid? an independent third party keeps track of the number of views he got.