Steve, you are 100% right about copy protection
....since you agree with me? <VBG>
Look what happened to DivX when the media industry tried to foist a copy protected, limited ownership model on the public. People voted with their wallets.
They will do the same thing if Sony (or whoever) tries to sell them a solid state 'CD' at probably the same price, but with all sorts of restrictions on it. It wont work. But these guys are too dumb to see that.
So Secure cards, Data Play, anything else similar will fail, as a delivery mechanism for copy protected media .
They may work in other scenarios, for example software delivery, or just standard storage of non-copy protected stuff.
BTW, it doesnt, IIRC, have your credit card number embedded in the card. Its just that the contents are somehow keyed to that particular disc or card, with some way of making sure that if you extract them, they wont work away from the card. Probably via a secure player, for example, this is how DVD works today, witness all the fuss over DecCSS or whatever its called.
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