02-10-2004, 01:00 AM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Microsoft to protect Disney films
"Disney has joined forces with Microsoft to start selling its movies over the net later this year. The venerable animation studio has signed up to use Microsoft software to stop its films being pirated. The deal reflects Microsoft desire to establish a foothold in the home entertainment market. For its part, Disney sees the potential for selling movies via the net but it is also worried about the potential for its creations to be pirated once it makes them available for download."
Here's the important part:
"The system being developed should allow buyers of the Disney films a limited ability to move the movies between PCs and media players."
One would hope that "media players" would include any Windows Media player equipped with DRM security, so I'd hope to see the Pocket PC included in this group. We'll see!
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02-10-2004, 01:19 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 578
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Another question is how portable the content will be. When I buy a new computer and then another, and when I replace my PPC a few times, will I still have full access to my digital content? If I will what hassles will be involved? Will I have to go to some source and individually re-validate every item in my collection?
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02-10-2004, 01:32 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 366
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Hmmm.....I like how the Palm Digital Reader handles activations....what are the odds they come out with a media player????
KCT
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02-10-2004, 01:33 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 18
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Honestly, I don't see why someone can't come up with a DRM system that allows unlimited copying among devices. What MS doesn't understand is that people won't buy into the "limited copy" philosophy once they learn what it is. If MS had half a brain, they'd find a way to encode a piece of sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) in each file in such a way that it can't be removed without destroying the entire file, yet would remain easily visible via a viewer program. They could then get rid of all of this silly "you can only copy a file three times" non-sense because no one would want their card number leaked all over the internet!
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02-10-2004, 01:38 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,398
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I'd give the warez sites about a week to crack it - maybe less.
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02-10-2004, 01:52 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 541
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Knowing MS earlier attempts at DRM, it's probably already cracked :P
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02-10-2004, 01:56 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 144
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More worthless BS. Why waste time and money on something that can't be done? Piracy is here forever.
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02-10-2004, 01:58 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,911
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This will only work if the price of digital videos are way below that cost of a DVD or if they offer exclusive content.
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02-10-2004, 01:59 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 366
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by qgman
If MS had half a brain, they'd find a way to encode a piece of sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) in each file in such a way that it can't be removed without destroying the entire file, yet would remain easily visible via a viewer program.
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Yup....this is the Palm Digital Reader model for activation.....it's tied to "me" and not a device.....think about it: who bought the media, me or the device????
KCT
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02-10-2004, 02:38 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 80
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I'll give the web 20 minutes to crack the DRM.
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