-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 12:40 AM 8/29/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
The way it was done with DAT (Digital Audio Tape), the product similar to DVD in so many ways, was to restrict the availability of DAT recorders which could faithfully record the output of other DAT machines. The SCMS system, or "Serial Copy Management System," has been in all consumer-grade DAT machines.
The DVD folks have also divided the world up into regions that use a different DVD standard (China is one all by itself) and they hope to minimize international copying. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNAbX0IVO4r4sgSPhAQEkXQQAjGoLGjPtYSKvPHy1vVhKa25A+MD6SW6F qOHr5QHSHi73XgCNe200WEMBAlE1yFVF+cfNs2ivALojEASt4PMLKzMcWB1o9dH0 i//AEf0JpVjdpJetSjunOsiwfGoE0eA45vVgYVoP3tWATtQmSoE1X/1rm2gnS30P L7TyFRbxUuw= =/gcK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----