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Aug 19, 2005 16:42

Companies are starting to go way overboard with their ideas for copy protection to deter pirates from copying movies and stuff. You should read http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050810_131820.html to find out some of their ideas for the new generation of ( Read more... )

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wings_of_ice August 19 2005, 23:55:39 UTC
grrrr...crazy people...first of all...its ironic that VHS which tapes off tv (we have tons and tons of movies taped of tv) can be copied no prob.

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cmu_jedi August 20 2005, 02:33:19 UTC
I think that someone should find out the names of all the people who are trying to introduce that internet thing. Then I think if it does get implemented, some hacker should get into their server and make it such that like once a month the players for just those people who are promoting this "feature" are rendered useless by the server. Lets see how many months of that happeneing before they regret ever even contemplating that kind of restrictive technology.

Why isn't the digital watermarks and the multiple encryption schemes enough? Do they really need a third type of copy protection?

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wings_of_ice August 20 2005, 16:38:08 UTC
yes they do! because of all the money their losening, their suffereing so muchhhhhhh....bleh sickening...

sorry about tupos etc...don't have glasses/contacts and home comp is supper far away from keyboard...can't see a word without leaning in superly and im tired of leanning and now this just turned into a rant....

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