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From:Paul Hill
Date:11 Aug 2000 at 13:10:08
Subject:Re: Amiga Piracy

Adam Bell wrote:
>
> Hmmm. How would this work I wonder. DVD movies played through a TV
> on a proper player can not be recorded to VHS due to it's encoding.
> The images gets fuzzed up but the audio remains fine. As an
> experiment I tried playing a DVD movie on a mates PC and outputting
> to a TV through his Matrox card, then recording to VHS. Again the
> DVD would not record. Remarkable!!

Try using an old video recorder.

> As for your idea, the developers would need a method of copying the
> files themselves, so would need some software to do this. This would
> probably get leaked (like the plans for the PSX Mod-Chip) or some
> clever developer could write their own.

It is impossible (IMHO) to produce media that cannot be copied. If someone
can engineer the best copy protection in the world then it makes sence that
somebody of equal talent can reverse engineer it.



Paul

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