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Technology Stocks : Hide & Seek - The Copy Protection Solution
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To: IPOJunkie who wrote (523)8/5/1998 6:22:00 PM
From: Enam Luf  Read Replies (2) of 690
 
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Ok, here are some new things i found out....

First, solutions similar to the mastered defect version have been around for a while and never took off for a number of reasons. One, the progress of recording technology can keep up with these type of solutions pretty quickly, and the price on that type of tech is coming down rapidly... To paraphrase his words... if this solution became prevalent, you'd likely see CD recorders that can compensate for the defects in short order. Also, the location of the defects can be detected and replicated (fed into the computer) by software.... creating an all purpose hack that would all but disintigrate any notion of security.

Second, the polymer "key" solution would be harder to duplicate, but could also be circumvented using a similar technique.

However, he liked the photosensitive polymer approach in general and saw a large potential market for it... especially in the CD Rom and DVD arena...

However, another thing he pointed out is that major software developers (high volume, mid to low end software) would be unlikely to use this type of technology unless 1) very cost effective (less than $1)

and 2) the disk mastering process was comparably efficient (time) to current disk production methods...
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