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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!sprite.berkeley.edu!shirriff
  2. From: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
  4. Subject: Re: Any way to *CREATE* Vcr+ (VCR PLUS) codes??? (please read)
  5. Date: 4 Jan 1993 23:43:19 GMT
  6. Organization: University of California, Berkeley
  7. Lines: 14
  8. Message-ID: <1iai2nINNjih@agate.berkeley.edu>
  9. References: <C0CED1.60H@metaflow.com> <1iaa91INNhgr@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan04.223520.29065@rchland.ibm.com>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: hijack.berkeley.edu
  11. Keywords: VCR+ patent
  12.  
  13. In article <1993Jan04.223520.29065@rchland.ibm.com> lwloen@rchland.vnet.ibm.com writes:
  14. >I would imagine the manufacturer doesn't care a fig if the algorithm is
  15. >published.
  16.  
  17. They do.
  18.  
  19. >It would be in their interest, I would think, to _give away_
  20. >the encoding algorithm to TV stations and any producer of TV listings, such
  21. >as a newspaper.
  22.  
  23. They don't give it away; they don't even reveal the algorithm.  They sell
  24. the code numbers to the newspapers.
  25.  
  26. Ken Shirriff                shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
  27.