At 02:16 PM 9/13/96 +0200, Gary Howland wrote:

Taken from a recent Edupage:

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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 ...

Probibly a variation on the Macrovision copy protection scheme. Of course they do not care that such copyprotection methods usually cause a loss in signal quality. (Which is why people buy laser discs in the first place.) Hopefully it will be something that never succeeds in the marketplace. (Although i expect it to be imposed whether the consumer wants it or not or how bad it screws up the signal.) --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."