From: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Robin Lee Powell)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 06:59:57 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Why Digital Video Disks are late to market
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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