RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] DVd saga... over?

[Curtis Jewell <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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On Tue, 1 May 2001, Spurling, Shannon  wrote:

> Yeah, see? They are exploiting a weakness or bandwidth limitation in the
> hardware to scramble the content. That's not a valid way to do it. How are
> you going to make sure that a future performance improvement isn't going to
> negate what you depend on to do your copy protection. You depend on a
> undocumented "feature" of the hardware to do something, how do you know it's

I agree with you, but I take issue about the choice of the
word "undocumented" - JVC documents this, and since they hold the license to
the VHS logo, you follow this or you don't sell a VHS VCR - at least
nowadays.

> always going to be there? It still doesn't affect that if you can reliably
> copy the signal, you can reproduce it.

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