Why Digital Video Disks are late to market
Robin Lee Powell
rlpowell at calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Apr 7 06:59:57 PDT 1997
In article <199702202056.MAA22465 at toad.com> Anonymous <nobody at replay.com> writes:
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> ... 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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