Re: Why Digital Video Disks are late to market

[azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)]

Has anyone seen discussions on how these protection mechanisms can be
circumvented?

>http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/news/97/942news/encryp.html
>
>To summarize, the Digital Video Disk standard contains an encryption
>standard for copyright and anti-piracy protection. however, "some U.S.
>PC and silicon vendors have just about abandoned hope of keeping to
>their revised launch schedules for DVD-enabled systems."
[snip]
>A solution may be in the offing within days. Some sources said late last
>week that Matsushita [who owns license rights] and key U.S. computer
>companies may resolve the software-licensing issues by the end of this
>week. The PC industry seeks amendments to the licensing-agreement language
>that would result in equivalent treatment of software- and hardware-based
>CSS decryption.
>
>... 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.
>

--Steve