From: Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 06:56:46 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks-unedited@toad.com
Subject: Re: Why Digital Video Disks are late to market
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azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear) writes:
> Has anyone seen discussions on how these protection mechanisms can be
> circumvented?

Ummm, sector copy? AFAIK, the reader/writer manfacturer is trusted to
cripple any copies it makes. Of course, it's all software, so if some
EVIL person were to write a driver that did not honor the "don't copy
me" header, society would just come crashing down around us.

Jer

"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
 why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole

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