[LINK] DVD chips 'to kill illegal copying'

Jan Whitaker jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Mon Sep 18 18:04:11 AEST 2006


At 05:04 PM 18/09/2006, brd at iimetro.com.au wrote:
>RFID readers will then be built-in to home DVD players to extend the
>anti-copying technology into homes as part of a digital rights management
>system.

I think they will be surprised. Their timing sucks, to put it bluntly. I 
really doubt people will be going out and replacing their DVD players just 
for this, right at the time that people will behaving to cough up for STBs 
or digital TV sets.


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