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cerebralJun 2, 2007
I don't think that is entirely true considering that is why they created HDMI and the HDCP content token. The digital to digital stream direct to the display of the monitor means that there is no analog hole anymore. So unless you are going to use a camcorder or devise some way to break into a tv to convert the signal then pretty much they have won.I'm surprised they haven't just come out and said that there will not be a PC player for the disks. That is the ONLY hole right now that I'm aware of. It's not like they would lose a big market share if they did that. In the meantime they could work on a solution that could provide a hardware decoding device that would make it more like the Xbox 360 and it's inability to be "hacked" with a mod chip.
cerebralJun 2, 2007
I think that the society in which we live in today has higher costs on essentials than we have had in recent times (rent, gas, food, electricity) and so we tend to be more choosy when it comes to leisure activities. Because of that I think that more people are into pirating anything. I think that the only REAL viable alternative is rental services like netflix, gamefly, gameznflix where a flat rate will get you unlimited MOVIE resources as you need. People are still too afraid of the internet to do things like this on the mass scale needed to make a difference. That or the studios start making new release movies $10 and older movies $3, $5 and $7 respectively. People are willing to pay that for movies... just ask Circuit City who almost weekly for the past month has had a $3.99 movie sale.It is just a real s**tty time for everyone right now. You either have to pay $20 for a movie you may only watch once or you pay $5 and rent. Of course the viable alternative that everyone loves is to get the movie for free.
feelmydiseaseJun 2, 2007
poor mikey, as usual, funny gets dugg down and sophmoric/infantile humorless pack thinking gets dugg up. pathetic.
chromavitaJun 2, 2007
I didn't like your metaphor, because it required some sort of sex change...
Closed AccountJun 2, 2007
The chance of your 128 bit number being used is very slim. The article states that you would have better chance of winning the lottery 4 days in a row.
nexterdayJun 2, 2007
@josmtxAh, I knew picking MD5 would be a bad example...but notice that in my comment I said give me "a" plaintext that produces that hash...not specifically the one that I used to produce the hash originally. Some of you suggested using the stronger SHA (256, 512), but again, this proves my original point (not that MD5 is strong) that encryption(or hashing) schemes can be created by small groups of people, and these schemes be effective in protecting data, several years beyond when they are implemented. @freedomknightI did in fact see that article, and found it interesting, but utterly useless. I believe the limits were that the "changed" part of the program had to be less than (or maybe exactly) 32 bytes, surrounded by large amounts of data that was the same. In any case, I don't rely on MD5s of programs I download for anything more than transmission error.
Closed AccountJul 26, 2007
anyone bought it? seriously...