Jon.
Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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?
>
> You can sign NDA's for the info for a fee (about $15,000 I seem to remember)
> but then can't release the info itself. Also if you do a software decoder
> and your decoder is 'cracked' to open the spec you agree to pay them a huge
> fine.
>
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