Actually a better anaolgy would be simplky photographing the page or using a photocopier.

It’s not unlike what companies advertising art books do, where they only include lores copies of the art pages, so that people don’t just accumulate the full res images and never buy the book.

It’s all content publishers have to hold onto it seems. Otherwise there’s nothing unique about the purchasable copy if free digital copies are floating around.

Hmm. They must be related to the Joint Photographic Experts Group.

There’s a classic WTF there, where (students, admittedly) design a flyer, print it out, digitally photograph it (along with the wooden table it’s sitting on), then put it on a website.

This is just too similar to that to believe.

Not only did they show that their all-important CSS can be trivially bypassed through the analog hole, they illustrated how DRM and the DMCA interfere with Fair Use rights, and did so by emulating the most well-known WTF joke ever.

With this kind of technical prowess, it’s easy to understand the reasoning behind their lobbying.

Also, if they put a hardware detector of watermarks into every ADC, we still can make a simple analog scrambler, which applies a reversible transformation to the signal which renders the mark incomprehensible for the ADC, then reverse it back once the data are in digital domain.

“so every simple 2 cent chip would need to become massively complex to defeat pirates…”

Impossible – if it can be done with computers, it can be undone with computers.

They have 0% chance of defeating pirates. Just look at the past of software AND hardware piracy. (looking at Compaq for reverse-engineering the BIOS of the original IBM PC)

/in the early 90s I helped unlock the original beta of the parallel portlocked 3D Studio (help button litterally said, “This is help”) and various software like AT&T’s Rio and Topas, Ron Scotts Hi-Res QFX, CAD-CAM, etc.

//I had the hardware to test them – Truevision Targa+ 64 that cost me $2500 with NO software

///original WAReZ internation BBS sysop is a good friend, I am one of the few people to be allowed to go to his home. Heh, various tape formats covered his floors

/facepalm

There is some irony in that video because it seem like they are using VLC which is of questionable legality in the USA because of its ability to play back certain codecs that they haven’t paid a licence for.

I also enjoy the use of VLC. I use it all the time to bypass the idiotic DVD region coding the MPAA insisted on…

Do you remember ICE?

The Iceman was the cracker. I only tested stuff. Heh, I still have my Borland C++ 2.0 manuals.

I got this idea from how I can buy a book, read it, then lend it to someone. It works with CDs, magazines, almost anything! You could even organize it on the neighborhood level.

So everyone wins. The MPAA got money for 1 dvd bought. Then everyone can watch it in full, and not have to buy it, or pay a royalty to show it in the class.