IP: Sony's MagicGate technology....

[David Farber <dfarber@fast.net>]

>To: dfarber@fast.net
>Subject: Sony's MagicGate technology....
>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:52:38 -0500
>From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo@gonzo.ccr.org>
>
>sony is already shipping products which do this media encryption
>thing. the MemoryStick technology has been revised to be
>MagicGate MemoryStick and it has the crypto chip in the stick
>as well as in the devices which use them.
>
>sony's web site also talks about OpenMG - "Open Magic Gate"
>(boy, there's an award-winning oxymoron) which is designed
>to work with "disk drives".
>
>i was about to buy a Sony thing which used the MagicGate
>MemoryStick things, but decided to do a little checking,
>and i'm now buying a non-Sony unit.
>
>see http://www9.station.sony.com/sca/press/feb_25_99.html
>and http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/corpcomm/news/bandp/685.html
>
>         -mo



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