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- From: deanaj@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (A. J. Dean)
- Subject: Re: Defeating SCMS
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- References: <1992Nov11.023239.2744@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:22:18 GMT
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- Paul S. Winalski (winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com) wrote:
- : No. Wenever a consumer DAT deck that enforces SCMS records from its analog
- : inputs, it writes a SCMS code of 11 onto the resulting DAT. The analog input
-
- When they do something that stupid they're asking for it to be broken.
- Perhaps the DAT manufacturers deliberately made SCMS worse than it needed to
- be just so that the necessary little black boxes will proliferate, and the
- SCMS will simply 'cease to exist' in a virtual sense once supply and demand
- has taken care of things. And perhaps timed perfectly for when DAT comes
- into its own, like PCs did when people realised how easy it was to copy
- software _especially_ when there was the additional excitement of using your
- new protection disabling thingie... Or would such collective cunning be
- impossible in the manufacturing industry!
-
- Defeating SCMS seems pretty simple to me - remember your first "Hi there"
- program? I rekon I could do it with a few PLLs and some delays. Perhaps in
- years to come people will have little competitions thinking up the most
- obscure ways to defeat SCMS. Hey, a mechanical design (cogs and all) would
- be neat.
-
- Antony.
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