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Re: Why Digital Video Disks are late to market
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- Subject: Re: Why Digital Video Disks are late to market
- From: [email protected] (Robin Lee Powell)
- Date: 07 Apr 1997 13:59:49 GMT
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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