NODE 57723521Re: Why Digital Video Disks are late to market
Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:56:41 -0800 (PST)
> ... there apparently has been some speculation among the U.S. PC community
> that Matsushita may be stonewalling on the software-licensing issue so that
> it can establish its hardware-based decryption solution in the marketplace.
The day it gets published in software is the day someone runs a
disassembler on it. That's all there is to it.
NODE b8263c61Re: Why Digital Video Disks are late to market
rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Robin Lee Powell)Mon, 7 Apr 1997 06:59:57 -0700 (PDT)
In article <199702202056.MAA22465@toad.com> Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> writes:
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> ... there apparently has been some speculation among the U.S. PC community
> that Matsushita may be stonewalling on the software-licensing issue so that
> it can establish its hardware-based decryption solution in the marketplace.
The day it gets published in software is the day someone runs a
disassembler on it. That's all there is to it.
The day it gets produced in hardware is the day someone starts to
reverse-engineer it. Harder, yes, but possible.
-Robin