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- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32I could write a long rant about how stupid this is, but I will just shorten it to one word:
Sony - FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27YARR!! But what if ye only have a hook?
- rewritable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18"Sony is very interested in this and has donated over US$120,000"
Good luck with that, I'll spend $0 on a 5 minute workaround the day after. - apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Can we say sillyputy? Or scotch tape? Or how bout gummy bears?
- P3ST4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9if you'd read the article and not just the title, you'd realize they mean a digital "fingerprint"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7hah, can't believe the idiots thinking this is a pyshical finger print.
it's digital fingerprint inside the file.
however, these kinds of fingerprint technology were a buzz word about 5 years ago, so naturally like fashions they get recycled. these things were always easily defeated in the past and will be so in the future.
the sooner movie studio's realise there is NO WAY to prevent copying of content, the sooner they can start giving us what we want - cheap movies on demand via the internet. - DarkElf109, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Heck, I'd even be happy if we just got decent movies...
- Kuipo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Exactly. Why they bother fighting this stuff makes no sense to me. They need to adapt to the changing culture, not fight it.
- WorldGroove, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8New way to get your friend in trouble.
1) Borrow his LOTR trilogy.
2) Copy it and put it on BitTorrent
3) The RIAA trace it back to your friend.
4) ?????
5) Profit!
6) Mod me down, 'cuz I had to do this ???-Profit thing. - MikeKnoop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sounds vulnerable to the 'ol analog hole.
-Mike - Camper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Dear Sony,
I am so close to completing the ultimate digital rights management scheme. It will be the mostest gee-whiz wow uncrackable whatever etc. etc. you have ever seen. If I only had an extra $120,000.00 dollars for my new home theater... I mean multimedia lab (cough cough) I could finish this up and If you just gave me the money I would share it with you. Honest.
Thanks,
Camper - delta013, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Root-kits weren't good enough, eh Sony?
- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, unless he registered his DVD, how is anyone going to know who it belongs to?
Now's a good time to start paying cash for DVDs and CDs. - klepto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Digitally signed copy? Might work if it was distributed online, maybe even physically as long as the customer bought it with their credit card/atm card.
But regardless, I'd love to crack this thing. - johnlewin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I assume they mean a key based encryption, like a signature. Seems to be technology so that they can track where the release came from. More profound then you think. For example, if you download a copy of LOTR, pull the codes off, and distribute it on bittorrent, and its your digitally signed copy ... its your arse.
- micro506, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@P3,
I believe he was speaking metaphorically. - sanza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If Sony weren't spending 75% of their adjusted gross on finding new ways to screw their customers (DRM) they'd find all that money they claim to be losing.
- Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Lets get rid of the DMCA!
- awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So glad the industry spending more money on protecting the movies than on the movies.
- korteenea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It bothers me that it's universities developing such fascist technologies. XD
- Travelsonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So if I use Wave_Out_Mix in audacity to record as the file plays, would that make a copy without the "fingerprint"? I know it renders anticopy copy-protection (as opposed to watermarking) completely circumvented, but I wonder if that works for this scheme as well.
- scheper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The article has quotation marks all over the place, except the right places.
Anyway, this isn't a Sony product, Sony has just said they were interested, and donated money for equipment.
This fingerprinting, also known as watermarking, is actually a great fantastic thing. Instead of DRM, this lets you find any pirate who distributed copies or are selling them, without imposing DRM onto the users. In fact, you can easily copy the media yourself, just if a copy that you made makes it out on the internet, you could get traced. This doesn't control your hardware, OS, or your media player at all. If companies go through with this, they won't need DRM so much anymore.
I'd much much rather have the watermarking/fingerprinting than DRM. - EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It depends on whether it's imbedded in the sound itself or the digital file.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2In a world ruled by Sony, you would be executed for so much as hearing a single copyrighted sound from Catwoman without proper authorization.
SECURITY BREACH - DEPLOY ASIMO KILLBOTS - zzbigalzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2well, hooray for us all, with the combination of a dramatically ***** ps3 showing, and sony burning cash like theres no tomorrow on copyright protection, soon there wont BE a sony
baybay! - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1[quote]Sony is very interested in this[/quote]
I bet they are! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1When will people learn don't buy anything from sony!
When will the industry learn that calling your customers crooks doesn't increase sales!
Selling a product is a contract between both party's example I buy a car, the car company expects me to pay them, I expect a good reliable car. Now with movies and software I pay them money and I get root kits, viruses, and stuff that plain just don't work the way it should, many times screwing up my hardware.
But I have no recourse to return these items for a refund.
Once again don't buy from any company that does this kind of stuff! - johnlewin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Biometrics are shockingly silly. Why it never occurs to anyone that biometrics are exciting b/c they cant be copied, but to scan them they have to be digitized, thus freely able to be copied. Sweet.
- phatpat88, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1meh... not as cool as real biometrics :)
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