And the new format provides for copy protection and uses a new error correction scheme.
With enough effort, he says, any copy protection scheme can be broken even those embedded in hardware.
The complex copy protection on these devices as with other anti-piracy schemes makes them awkward to use.
We call it copy protection, and Sony Pictures specifically stands to benefit from this.
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In the days of competition Microsoft backed off on copy protection because users hate it.
As a note, you cannot take video off a DVD movie because of its copy protection system.
It is true that copy protection schemes have, for the most part, been no match for hackers.
Copy protection on DVDs was a smart move on the part of studios if the aim was discourage ripping.
The latest was filed on Friday by a film industry group that oversees copy protection technology of film DVDs.
This legislation, enacted in 1998, makes it illegal to reverse-engineer copy protection schemes.
They'd say we're delighted, and let us know when we can start selling our music through iTunes without copy protection.
But it brilliantly lampoons the fallacies that have caused major content companies to employ similar (and similarly ineffective) copy protection schemes.
The site offers gamers some of the greatest PC games of all time for a low price and free from copy protection.
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Upon cracking the device open, enthusiasts were surprised to find no copy protection to speak of -- just a lightly glued MicroSD card.
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The copy protection systems have been used in an attempt to limit piracy and stop people getting hold of music via illegal file-sharing.
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Even then, purchased music must be stored on a special type of Memory Stick another Sony design that includes Sony's MagicGate copy protection.
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While we haven't seen any references to the DRM scheme actually causing any crashes, it does seem like a pretty underhanded way to enforce copy protection.
Live streaming is also impossible thanks to a "bug" in the software that can't secure the session, breaking the corporation's copy protection system which only affects mobile devices.
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MP3 technically, it works without any form of copy protection.
The copy protection on most of Google's paid videos means that after they're purchased, they can't be played on anything but a PC connected to the Internet running Google's video player.
But the so-called "Big Five" record labels, which control 85 percent of U.S. record sales, say built-in copy protection is the only way they can safeguard their music from freeloading downloaders.
Software firms, meanwhile, see copy protection as an opportunity.
On Tuesday, Digg announced it had removed user-submitted links to articles containing the HD-DVD encryption key, a series of 16 digits that programmers could use to crack the copy protection code on the new disc format.
We hope StarForce decides to follow Sony's lead and apologize, offer removal instructions and vow to never do this again -- though we suspect that's not about to happen, since the company's sole business is copy protection.
When word leaked out about a week ago that Sony was using a copy-protection program to keep people from copying their music CDs, music lovers cried foul and security experts warned the XCP copy protection system could be hijacked by so-called Trojan horse programs.
The Blu-Ray group, made up of three performance artists named Ray whose Vegas show has been voted best on the Strip, recently announced that it would add more stringent copy protection to its high-definition DVD successor in order to woo studio support.
The application, published Dec. 13, suggests Apple could adopt something similar to Microsoft 's widely criticized Windows Genuine Advantage copy protection program, which checks a user's machine to confirm that it is not running a pirated version of Microsoft's software in exchange for access to certain software updates.
The application, published Dec. 13, suggests Apple could adopt something similar to Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) widely criticized Windows Genuine Advantage copy protection program, which checks a user's machine to confirm that it is not running a pirated version of Microsoft's software in exchange for access to certain software updates.
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