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RE: Was a mistake made in the design of AACS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Farquhar \(ifarquha\))
Sat May 12 09:10:05 2007
Reply-To: <ifarquha@cisco.com>
From: "Ian Farquhar \(ifarquha\)" <ifarquha@cisco.com>
To: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:46:29 +1000
In-Reply-To: <20070504145029.GE5596@Sun.COM>
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:25:34AM -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
> Well, there's an idea: use different physical media formats for entertainment and non-
> entertainment content (meaning, content created by MPAA members vs. not) and don't sell
> writable media nor devices capable of writing it for the former, not to the public, keeping
> very tight controls on the specs and supplies. [...]
Sony's UMD format is an example of this approach. I doubt even the most reality-disconnected marketeers in Sony could call it
anything but an abject failure. I also doubt any company other than Sony - which has a long history of believing it can control
the delivery format - would have even bothered.
Ian.
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