Re: RealMagic DVD-cards

B.W. McAdams (brendan@plexmedia.com)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:57:53 -0400

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> ... In order to protect their habit of selling the
> same movie in different countries at different times and different prices
> the DVD vendors use crypto and country coding. People are breaking this
> stuff but its non trivial

I'm assuming the DVD industry hasn't been overly cooperative in the matter? I
would think that to some degree, the decoding specs would be published so that
hardware manufacturers could get access to them. Is it reverse engineering on
everyone's end? Or just ours?

-brendan

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