>> Seriously, let the studios withhold their movies if I want- most of them aren't worth watching anyway. That's why Divx was a good format. Because most movies suck. Why spend $20 for a movie that you're embarassed to admit you watched once, much less twice. With Divx you only had to waste $4.50 for a sucky movie.:)
Ahh, you speak from ignorance and bias. There were a large number of attempts to crack Divx security. Most of them by individuals acquiring players and doing all sorts of obscene things to the security chip. I personally saw a number of players sent to Divx Central from the CCS stores that had been returned by their owners. The players would have broken warrenty seals, and all kinds of scratch marks, burns, etc on various parts. Poor, thing...it's been tortured. None of them spilled their guts.
So, you see, Anonymous Coward, that attempts were made, and all failed. Ha Ha we all laugh from the unemployement line.
When one designs a crypto system it should be designed with renewability (sic) built in. So, if the first set of keys gets broken somehow then the entire keyset gets renewed and off it runs. DirectTV has this capability (via sending out new smartcards). Divx had this capability which was never exersized because no one ever came close to breaking it; although they tried.
A bunch of ex-Divx engineers and I are laughing our butts off now. Everyone in the industry knew that CSS as lousy security and that sooner or later someone would take the time to break it. Divx had real security which was and still is unbroken. Now that CSS is meaningless, the studio's just may decide to withhold their valuable digital content until much later that VHS day-and-date release. If that happens, DVD will become the laserdisc of the 90's (or maybe 00's). I think all you hate mongering Divx bashers need to bow toward Richmond and pray to the deceased spirit of Divx that the studios don't withhold content because of poor security.
At my last job we used as a theme: Names of small towns in virginia. We had a map on the way of the state and called it our random name generator. With Virginia (as most states) you get some cool names: bumpass, wachapregue, schyler.
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>> Seriously, let the studios withhold their movies if I want- most of them aren't worth watching anyway. :)
That's why Divx was a good format. Because most movies suck. Why spend $20 for a movie that you're embarassed to admit you watched once, much less twice. With Divx you only had to waste $4.50 for a sucky movie.
There were a large number of attempts to crack Divx security. Most of them by individuals acquiring players and doing all sorts of obscene things to the security chip. I personally saw a number of players sent to Divx Central from the CCS stores that had been returned by their owners. The players would have broken warrenty seals, and all kinds of scratch marks, burns, etc on various parts. Poor, thing...it's been tortured. None of them spilled their guts.
So, you see, Anonymous Coward, that attempts were made, and all failed. Ha Ha we all laugh from the unemployement line.
When one designs a crypto system it should be designed with renewability (sic) built in. So, if the first set of keys gets broken somehow then the entire keyset gets renewed and off it runs. DirectTV has this capability (via sending out new smartcards). Divx had this capability which was never exersized because no one ever came close to breaking it; although they tried.
A bunch of ex-Divx engineers and I are laughing our butts off now. Everyone in the industry knew that CSS as lousy security and that sooner or later someone would take the time to break it. Divx had real security which was and still is unbroken. Now that CSS is meaningless, the studio's just may decide to withhold their valuable digital content until much later that VHS day-and-date release. If that happens, DVD will become the laserdisc of the 90's (or maybe 00's). I think all you hate mongering Divx bashers need to bow toward Richmond and pray to the deceased spirit of Divx that the studios don't withhold content because of poor security.
At my last job we used as a theme: Names of small towns in virginia. We had a map on the way of the state and called it our random name generator. With Virginia (as most states) you get some cool names: bumpass, wachapregue, schyler.