On Mon, 25 Dec 2000 01:23:41 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [...]
>
> > So -if-, by some happenstance, commercial vendors somehow manage to
> > convince themselves and their customers that this is somehow a better
> > world, and their customers fail to vote with their feet (perhaps
>
> Don't kid yourself. No one is that kind of stupid. If they indeed
> are, then it's not worth fighting for, anyway. Looks clearly win/win
> to me.
Actually, the CPSA (Content Protection System Architecture) introduces a nice
twist (as in `twist your arm'):
`Encryption is a way of scrambling digital content so that it is
unusable (not recognizable) unless it is first descrambled
(decrypted). To get the necessary intellectual property to be able
to decrypt the content, a license is required. That license contract
specifies requirements to manage the content according to its CMI
[Content Management Information].'
In other words, if all DVD content is encrypted, all DVD players will have to
be compliant... We may see more compliant players than we like.
Jaap-Henk
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