NODE 1c0cbb8aRe: Five industry giants propose encryption plan to protect Hollywood
Information Security <guy@panix.com>Sat, 21 Feb 1998 06:11:38 +0800
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:13:50 -0800 (PST)
> From: William Knowles <erehwon@dis.org>
>
> BURBANK, Calif. (February 19, 1998 09:06 a.m. EST
> http://www.nando.net) -- Five computer and electronics industry giants
> have agreed on a strategy to prevent people from illegally copying
> digital movies and music, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
>
> According to the proposal, high-definition TV sets, personal
> computers, digital video disc players, digital video cassette
> recorders and set-top boxes would be equipped with technology that
> requires a code before a copyrighted piece of work can be transferred
> from one device to another.
>
> It would ensure that someone who watches or listens to digital movies
> or music over satellite services, cable networks and the Internet
> won't be able to make copies without permission.
>
> The encryption technique scrambles the copyrighted material in one
> device so it cannot be unscrambled by another device without the
> correct software key.
It's unscrambled when it is listened to...what are they thinking?
---guy
Escpecially regarding computers, this won't work.
NODE 56c23ccfRe: Five industry giants propose encryption plan to protect Hollywood
"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>Sat, 21 Feb 1998 08:38:36 +0800
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In <199802200635.BAA20101@panix2.panix.com>, on 02/20/98
at 01:35 AM, Information Security <guy@panix.com> said:
> > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:13:50 -0800 (PST)
> > From: William Knowles <erehwon@dis.org>
> >
> > BURBANK, Calif. (February 19, 1998 09:06 a.m. EST
> > http://www.nando.net) -- Five computer and electronics industry
>giants
> > have agreed on a strategy to prevent people from illegally copying
> > digital movies and music, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
> >
> > According to the proposal, high-definition TV sets, personal
> > computers, digital video disc players, digital video cassette
> > recorders and set-top boxes would be equipped with technology that
> > requires a code before a copyrighted piece of work can be
>transferred
> > from one device to another.
> >
> > It would ensure that someone who watches or listens to digital
>movies
> > or music over satellite services, cable networks and the Internet
> > won't be able to make copies without permission.
> >
> > The encryption technique scrambles the copyrighted material in one
> > device so it cannot be unscrambled by another device without the
> > correct software key.
>It's unscrambled when it is listened to...what are they thinking? ---guy
what they are talking about is *every* VCR, TapeRecorded, ...ect will not
record data that has this security feature without a proper record code.
(keep hold of the old VCR's and Tape Players). Even though the data is
decrypted to be viewed you will still have a stego data channel that will
tell these recording devices to to record.
Will this prevent the professional bootleger from making copies? No. The
finanical incentives for working around these security measures are there
(bootleging is a multi-billion dollor business). What this will do is
prevent you from recording songs off a CD to play on a tape in your car or
prevent you from recording that movie you just watched on PPV.
> Escpecially regarding computers, this won't work.
Well I have gone over this in previous posts that right's management
woun't work against the bootlegers as at some time you have to display the
raw data to the user. what it will to is make things that much harder for
the average user.
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NODE ed20d668Re: Five industry giants propose encryption plan to protect Hollywood
sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:24:09 -0800 (PST)
Oh please. You could always (for computers anyway) write your own drivers for
video cards and sound cards that not only display stuff, but also save it to
a hard drive as it's being recieved. Whoop!
> > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:13:50 -0800 (PST)
> > > From: William Knowles <erehwon@dis.org>
> > >
> > > BURBANK, Calif. (February 19, 1998 09:06 a.m. EST
> > > http://www.nando.net) -- Five computer and electronics industry
> >giants
> > > have agreed on a strategy to prevent people from illegally copying
> > > digital movies and music, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
> > >
> > > According to the proposal, high-definition TV sets, personal
> Well I have gone over this in previous posts that right's management
> woun't work against the bootlegers as at some time you have to display the
> raw data to the user. what it will to is make things that much harder for
> the average user.
Exactly, it will probably require the average user to get involved in weird
type in the 5th word of the 6th paragraph on page 60 in volume 6 of your
book and your ssn and your 3rd daughter's birth hour to display. But once
displayed... it's yours. Shit, things like Lotus ScreenCam can grab anything
displayed on screen.
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NODE b5a7bb6aRe: Five industry giants propose encryption plan to protect Hollywood
"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>Tue, 24 Feb 1998 03:04:15 -0800 (PST)
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In <34F21246.7B6B00A8@brainlink.com>, on 02/23/98
at 07:20 PM, sunder <sunder@brainlink.com> said:
>Oh please. You could always (for computers anyway) write your own
>drivers for video cards and sound cards that not only display stuff, but
>also save it to a hard drive as it's being recieved. Whoop!
Well sitting down and writting a device driver is above and beyond the
ability of the average WinBlows user. More than likely it is above and
beyond the average "programmer" (ASM what's that??). M$ is already playing
around with using crypto and only allowing signed programs to run under
their OS (Crypto API, Active-X) it is not hard to imagine that they could
have the new version of their OS only allow device drivers that have been
approved and signed by microsoft (when you control +90% of the market you
can get away with silly shit like this).
> > > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:13:50 -0800 (PST)
>> > > From: William Knowles <erehwon@dis.org>
>> > >
>> > > BURBANK, Calif. (February 19, 1998 09:06 a.m. EST
>> > > http://www.nando.net) -- Five computer and electronics industry
>> >giants
>> > > have agreed on a strategy to prevent people from illegally copying
>> > > digital movies and music, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
>> > >
>> > > According to the proposal, high-definition TV sets, personal
>> Well I have gone over this in previous posts that right's management
>> woun't work against the bootlegers as at some time you have to display the
>> raw data to the user. what it will to is make things that much harder for
>> the average user.
>Exactly, it will probably require the average user to get involved in
>weird type in the 5th word of the 6th paragraph on page 60 in volume 6 of
>your book and your ssn and your 3rd daughter's birth hour to display.
>But once displayed... it's yours. Shit, things like Lotus ScreenCam can
>grab anything displayed on screen.
Yes but I wouldn't want to use ScreenCam to copy a 100 page document. My
point was it would not make it impossible to copy the data just that it
would raise the "threshold of pain" above what the average user is willing
to endure.
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