Is anyone willing to take odds that this DRM will be thwarted by the time it is actually available (mid 2005)?
New DVDs 'harder' to pirate:
DVDs will be harder to pirate thanks to new copy protection measures by Macrovision.
Macrovision says its new RipGuard technology will thwart most, but not all, of the current DVD ripping (copying) programs used to pirate DVDs.“RipGuard is designed to... reduce DVD ripping and the resulting supply of illegal peer to peer,” said the firm.
Macrovision said the new technology will work in “nearly all” current DVD players when applied to the discs, but it did not specify how many machines could have a problem with RipGuard....
The new system is in fact a tweak of the current anti-piracy measures which works specifically to block most ripping programs.
If used, those programs will most likely crash, the company said.
Macrovision has said that Rip Guard can be updated if hackers find a way around the new anti-copying measures.
like MacTheRipper?
