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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