Is this true? Does anyone have confirmation of this crack? Or is C/NET being a bit liberal on word choice? Ern
full article: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,13651,00.html
Hundreds of films come to DVD By Michael Kanellos August 22, 1997, 4:35 p.m. PT
UPDATE A raft of new DVD movies from major Hollywood studios could provide a boost to the fledgling digital video disc industry, which has been in dire need of more titles.
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Third, the entertainment industry giants will have to improve and agree on an encryption technology. The current 40-bit encryption standard used on DVD discs, which is supposed to stop copyright pirates, has already been cracked in China. Stronger encryption, however, forces PCs and players to run at a crawl. Partially as a result, Fox, Paramount, and Disney have not committed to producing materials on DVD, Burdon noted.
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