[streaming] Re: digital copyright protection

[Reini Urban]

Christophe Massiot wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003, Reini Urban wrote:
>>We are internet service provider and want to use VLS/VLS as pay-per-view 
>>solution. The major hollywood studios make troubles because of fear of 
>>unauthorized recording and re-distributions.
>>Having the server and client sources would make it relatively easy to 
>>add such a scheme.
> 
> But since the sources are available and under the GPL, anyone could
> patch the source to get the clean MPEG stream. So I guess your copy-
> protection scheme wouldn't work.

Sure. But the majors wouldn't have to know that.

>>And maybe persuade the studios to get the current theatrical releases 
>>before DVD release.
-- 
Reini Urban - Entwicklung - http://inode.at

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