Re: Why Digital Video Disks are late to market
... there apparently has been some speculation among the U.S. PC community that Matsushita may be stonewalling on the software-licensing issue so that it can establish its hardware-based decryption solution in the marketplace.
The day it gets published in software is the day someone runs a disassembler on it. That's all there is to it.
In article <199702202056.MAA22465@toad.com> Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> writes: Path: news.csclub.uwaterloo.ca!not-for-mail From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> Newsgroups: csc.lists.cypherpunks Date: 20 Feb 1997 17:14:06 -0500 Organization: University of Waterloo Computer Science Club Lines: 7 Sender: daemon@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca Approved: mail2news@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Distribution: csc NNTP-Posting-Host: calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.csclub.uwaterloo.ca csc.lists.cypherpunks:32284
... there apparently has been some speculation among the U.S. PC community that Matsushita may be stonewalling on the software-licensing issue so that it can establish its hardware-based decryption solution in the marketplace.
The day it gets published in software is the day someone runs a disassembler on it. That's all there is to it. The day it gets produced in hardware is the day someone starts to reverse-engineer it. Harder, yes, but possible. -Robin
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