[65364] in Cypherpunks
What is this nonsense? (Anti DVD piracy chip)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Howland)
Fri Sep 13 08:39:27 1996
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:16:48 +0200
From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Taken from a recent Edupage:
> SGS-THOMSON TAKES AIM AT DVD PIRACY
> SGS-Thomson Microelectronics has developed a computer chip that prevents
> would-be DVD pirates from making unlawful copies of movies from digital
> video disc players. The chip scrambles the disk's coding if it's duplicated
> on a VCR. (Investor's Business Daily 11 Sep 96 A6)
Anyone know anything about this? Sounds like nonsense to me ...
Gary
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pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
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