| Morgan Wajda-Levie on Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:42:55 -0500 (EST) |
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Mike, The misunderstanding that seems to be so common about this case is that CSS does not stop copying. Hiding simply behind the argument of practicality and impracticality is definately a weak one, as DVDs are a new technology. It may be a pain the butt to burn DVDs now, but things could change a lot in five years. It is true that with a $200 burner you can copy CDs for $.60 a pop. We may see a very similar thing with DVDs in the near future. Still, none of that matters. Encryption simply keeps you from reading something, not copying it. Take any other form of encryption in use on the Internet today. If I encrypt and sign a message with gpg, it is true that only people with the key will read it, and it will be authenticated as my own. Nevertheless, encryption does nothing if I simply copy the message directly into another location. Theoretically you could probably do something with time stamps that are hard-coded into the DVD burner; the time a DVD was created could be written into the DVD by the burner automattically, and the encrypted movie could have the same date, so that he two could be compared. However, I don't think a system such as this is in place. It's not very practical, and not anywhere near foolproof. -- Morgan Wajda-Levie PGP fingerprint: A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616 F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key encrypted mail preferred Attachment:
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