New Technology may stop DVD pirating

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New technology from Macrovision Corp. claims to block virtually all known methods for making unauthorized copies of DVDs.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/02/17/ripguard.dvd.ap/

And I can already think of one way to get around it.
Simply play a rented DVD on your PC and record it with a stream recorder like wmrecorder. Then burn that movie onto a blank DVD and voila, you have a copied DVD.

 

[canucklehead]

scrambles signal so that the stream capture comes out scrambled.....

 

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I'm not a tech-whiz but couldnt you just point a regular DVDcamcorder at the TV and record it that way????
You may lose a bit of quality but not much.

 

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I'm sure there will be a way to get around it in time. Macrovision Corp. is just trying to make it sound like they have some new method to make it secure to sell to the movie industry so they make money and there stock goes up and the shareholders will be happy... in reality they know it will be busted in time like the last 100 attempts at securing DVD's.

 

[C Dick]

You can't just aim a camcorder at the TV, you get the black bars because they are not syncronized. There is no perfect means of encryption, if it can play clearly on a TV (which is the whole point), then you can build a device to record it. The main strategy of the content-providers is to have any technology that can do so made illegal.

 

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BTW I just got back from Thailand and got a pirated copy of the Aviator for $5
It’s a perfect copy except for the banner that shows up once in awhile along the bottom of the screen says “Property of Mirrormax… for Academy screening purposes only”

The pirated DVD’s in Thailand are factory made… they even have the silk screening on the disk like it’s store bought… some look even better made then the real thing!

 

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But cant it be made like DirecTV's encryption that noone can break????
Or is that different????

 

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But cant it be made like DirecTV's encryption that noone can break????
Or is that different????

Because Direct TV uses a renewable security system, better known as an access card. By changing to a new card they effectively changed to a new encryption method making there system once again secure from piracy at least for now. With DVD’s yes they are encrypted and there was a time when no one knew how they were encrypted, what keys were used and what the algorithm was. This all changed one day when some 14 year old kid in Sweden cracked it by accident and then posted it up on the internet. The catch 22 is if you changed the DVD encryption then every DVD’s player in existence would need to be updated with the latest keys and algorithm. I know what you thinking… they should have employed some kind of renewable security like what’s used by Direct TV into all the DVD players… but it’s a little too late now.

All the short lived futile attempts at stopping piracy are known as “walk around methods” that simply change something here to confuse something over there… they only slow down piracy but can’t ever effectively stop it.

 

[Spode]

Because Direct TV uses a renewable security system, better known as an access card. By changing to a new card they effectively changed to a new encryption method making there system once again secure from piracy at least for now. With DVD’s yes they are encrypted and there was a time when no one knew how they were encrypted, what keys were used and what the algorithm was. This all changed one day when some 14 year old kid in Sweden cracked it by accident and then posted it up on the internet. The catch 22 is if you changed the DVD encryption then every DVD’s player in existence would need to be updated with the latest keys and algorithm. I know what you thinking… they should have employed some kind of renewable security like what’s used by Direct TV into all the DVD players… but it’s a little too late now.

All the short lived futile attempts at stopping piracy are known as “walk around methods” that simply change something here to confuse something over there… they only slow down piracy but can’t ever effectively stop it.

Your one smart cookie. I hear some have the new P4 codes for Direct. I have an offer for one, but to tell you the truth I'm quite content to keep getting fucked in the ass by Theodor Rogers and his PVR crack.

By the way Macrovision company motto is "Macrovision DVD Security brought to you from the makers of Enzyte herbal performance enhancers" Those slimey fuckers are that egotistical that they think they can do anything about anything. The black market, bootlegs, drugs, prostitution, DVD piracy will always be around and they can go spend all the money on R & D and then go fuck themselves.

 

[Spode]

One last joke,

security surrounding digital documents like PDF's and digital signature or locked cells on excell spreadsheets. Fuuuuuuccccccckkkkkkk yyyoooooouuuuuu!!!!!

 

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DVDs fitted with the new Macrovision technology do not require new software or hardware to be played and should be compatible with nearly all existing DVD players and DVD computer drives, the company says.

So if the new DVDs work in old players I'd say it'll take all of a couple of months, if that, until ripping software gets updated to compensate for the new encryption.