17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Taken from a recent Edupage:
SGS-THOMSON TAKES AIM AT DVD PIRACY SGS-Thomson Microelectronics has developed a computer chip that prevents would-be DVD pirates from making unlawful copies of movies from digital video disc players. The chip scrambles the disk's coding if it's duplicated on a VCR. (Investor's Business Daily 11 Sep 96 A6)
Anyone know anything about this? Sounds like nonsense to me ... Gary -- "Of course the US Constitution isn't perfect; but it's a lot better than what we have now." -- Unknown. pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06