IP: Encryption Schemes Aimed at Film Piracy [and the right to make a copy for your own use djf]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

[ Read it and weep . Them guys have the money to buy the congress and then 
your freedom slowly but surely. CONSUME and make then money djf]


> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Encryption Schemes Aimed at Film Piracy
> By ERIC A. TAUB
> The New York Times
>
> NAPSTER'S threat to the financial health of the recording industry may have
> waned, but its paradigm continues to terrify Hollywood. Thanks to digital
> television, the motion picture industry fears that legions of international
> video pirates and crafty teenagers could soon be intercepting transmissions
> and then uploading perfect digital copies of the latest feature films to the
> Internet. Eventually those grainy pirated videotapes sold in New York and
> other cities could be replaced by pristine Internet-transmitted copies
> before the film has even hit the local multiplex.
>
> The industry's solution to slowing piracy and preserving profits includes
> two recently adopted digital encryption techniques that will hinder and
> could even prevent consumers with digital televisions from recording movies
> or programs.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> With the Digital Transmission Content Protection standard, a motion picture
> could be designated as recordable once or often, with data transmitted back
> to the provider, and an additional fee charged. The system could also be set
> up so that owners of personal video recorders like the TiVo could keep
> recordings for just a few minutes, enough time to answer the doorbell, say,
> but not long enough to watch it the next day.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/30/technology/circuits/30PIRA.html
>
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