Re: Blu-Ray and content protection

In article <dddr4i12bg4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx
wrote:

> > controversial technology would require that disc players maintain
> |> permanent connections to content providers via the Internet, making
>
> What would a player do if it can't keep in contact with the content
> provider? Just stop playing? This could make for a very interesting
> Denial-of-Service attack on a wide scale. Taking down the servers used
> by the content providers could easily render a given (and perhaps just
> released to BD-ROM) movie unviewable.

According to "insiders" posting at AVS, the players don't have to have
connections. They can update revocation lists through the discs, which
will have code to execute in the VM of BD+ (aka SPDC).
.

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