Re: Blu-Ray and content protection

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:06:48 -0700 poldy <poldy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
| 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).

That will make for some interesting piracy of its own once the update
access has been cracked. And it will eventually get cracked.

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