New anti-copying process being developed

[antipodes]

I thought forum readers might be interested in this article from the Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...igital-pirates-out-to-sea-20140717-zti0s.html

If this proposed development does not constitute an invasion of privacy I don't know what does.:bang:

 

[Ch3vr0n]

Nothing is tamper proof. Ask the folks of cinavia. It can already be 'semi-disabled' by tampering with the audio signal that makes it not being detected or hell even slysoft. They fool software players to not detect it. There goes 'tamper proof' out the window.

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[Recycle]

Nothing is tamper proof. Ask the folks of cinavia. It can already be 'semi-disabled' by tampering with the audio signal that makes it not being detected or hell even slysoft. They fool software players to not detect it. There goes 'tamper proof' out the window.

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I go along the line of this You can make it - they will break it. Just like the Rootkit how it was discovered and how it was bypassed by AnyDVD so they thought they were smart until they got caught with their pants down.

 

[Ch3vr0n]

jup reminds me of the sony rootkit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal and here they are as one of the main backers behind cinavia

 

[RBBrittain]

Much of this article is pure hyperbole by the reporter, developers or both. For example (as one of the article's own sources suggested), the credit-card industry would never agree to embedding card numbers in watermarks; even if done without their permission that would lead to a security breach bigger than Sony BMG & Target combined once the watermark's encryption is cracked, which will inevitably happen. (Not to mention the ISP would have to be snooping itself to get card numbers from illegal-download purchases; even if they were, why embed it in your download instead of sending it to the cops, NSA, etc.?) For another, except for MOD-like technologies there is simply no way to embed personal info into a manufactured optical disc; screeners (like the Ellen DeGeneres Show-leaked one cited in the article) are made individually much like Warner Archive DVDs. (All Warner Archive BDs are pressed.)

All in all, this seems to be nothing more than Cinavia-like durability for the watermarks & metadata tags already used by legal download sites; not an issue for those of us who stick to fair-use copying and do not upload or download illegally.