From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 22:57:04 +0800
To: Tim May <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: need confirmation of DVD/CSS crack in China ...
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At 12:40 AM 8/29/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:

>The way it was done with DAT (Digital Audio Tape), the product similar to
>DVD in so many ways, was to restrict the availability of DAT recorders
>which could faithfully record the output of other DAT machines. The SCMS
>system, or "Serial Copy Management System," has been in all consumer-grade
>DAT machines.

The DVD folks have also divided the world up into regions that use a 
different DVD standard (China is one all by itself) and they hope to minimize 
international copying.

DCF

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