• ARM Launches Hollywood Approved Anti-Piracy Processor
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[QUOTE=cqbcat;40903271]Watch how someone cracks this shit within a week after it's release.[/QUOTE] How do you crack a CPU?
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40904248]How do you crack a CPU?[/QUOTE] Very carefully.
[QUOTE=Reds;40899536]I give it ten minutes after release.[/QUOTE] That's mighty pessimistic if you ask me. I wouldn't even be surprised if a master key gets leaked or something along those lines to crack it before it's released. [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;40901926]Well that platform does exist. I think WB had it's own download service, somewhat like steam, where you could buy and store movies on your PC as long as you used their platform. Every DVD you bought came with a little slip that would let you transfer the movie to your PC via downloading it from their platform. Of course it was widely ignored because if people are downloading movies, they're downloading them from TPB, not WB servers.[/QUOTE] I tried that shit in a VM once out of curiosity. The program whinged constantly and the encoding was awful.
[QUOTE=froztshock;40902774]So how exactly does it work? Is it just a hardware-level system for decrypting video files with DRM? [/QUOTE] My guess it is it using a sudo Hardware based PGP system, but we have had these types of systems being produced since 2004... They work for a little while then someone cracks it
[QUOTE=DrDevil;40900145]Maybe if they instead invested the money and time to produce good movies for acceptable prices, they wouldn't have to spend their efforts with this.[/QUOTE] Maybe making films is an extremely expensive industry that requires trying to recoup costs in the face of people who will pirate simply because they're too lazy or too cheap to buy legitimately, no matter how good the movie is. There are plenty of great, DRM-free games sold for low prices that get pirated in [i]enormous[/i] numbers. People pirate [i]humble bundles[/i]. The argument that companies should just make their product better and then piracy will go away is total bullshit. And more importantly, you don't have any right to dictate prices to a publisher and then feel self-righteous about it. If you don't like the price, don't buy it, or go to eBay. Nothing justifies going and pirating it anyways.
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40904248]How do you crack a CPU?[/QUOTE] You twist all the pins and plug it back in.
[QUOTE=catbarf;40905714]Maybe making films is an extremely expensive industry that requires trying to recoup costs in the face of people who will pirate simply because they're too lazy or too cheap to buy legitimately, no matter how good the movie is. There are plenty of great, DRM-free games sold for low prices that get pirated in [i]enormous[/i] numbers. People pirate [i]humble bundles[/i]. The argument that companies should just make their product better and then piracy will go away is total bullshit. And more importantly, you don't have any right to dictate prices to a publisher and then feel self-righteous about it. If you don't like the price, don't buy it, or go to eBay. Nothing justifies going and pirating it anyways.[/QUOTE] And if they don't [i]at least[/i] quadruple their investment on returns then it's an absolute failure. [editline]6th June 2013[/editline] Who's pirating shit on their phones and tablets anyways?
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40904248]How do you crack a CPU?[/QUOTE] By crack, I mean someone will find a solution to circumnavigate the security. If people can freakin' find ways to get around EA's DRM or jailbreak Iphones, they can do the same with this ARM processor.
It's not about stopping piracy, in the sense that they don't want to lose money to pirates. It's about CONTROL. The movie people used to have a vast control over what you could see and where and when you could see it. Pre-home video, you had two basic choices to watch a movie. At a theater, or on tv years later when the movie finally got shown on a network or rerun. In today's world imagine that if you wanted to watch Iron Man 3 you had to pay to see it in the theater. Or you had to wait around two or three years until it came on tv. And even then, if ABC was showing it at 9pm on Sunday night, you had to watch it at 9pm on Sunday night or you're out of luck. Instead we live in a world where you can see Iron Man 3 as soon as it's ready for download. You can watch it anytime, anywhere, on any mobile device. They have totally lost control and it's driving them insane.
I want to know how exactly this works. There isn't any info about it in the article.
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