As you all know, DVD's are protected against copying and ripping but the protection has already been bypassed by even 7 lines of code. DeCSS the tool that was initially designed to make Linux DVD player is however now widely available on the internet.
It required the DVD producing companies to introduce a new protection to protect their contents. The DVD protection technology called watermarking will likely be provided by Macrovision, but it seems this could not be the case:
Macrovision Corporation announced that the company has been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) believes more work and study is required before the DVD CCA and the Content Protection Advisory Council (CPAC) can complete their evaluation and possible selection of a watermarking technology for copy prevention and playback control of digital video content. |
CPAC is a group of 27-companies that advises the DVD CCA Board on matters relating to Content Scrambling System (CSS) licensing, which is the encryption technology used on almost all commercial DVD discs and licensed DVD player devices. Macrovision has been informed that the DVD CCA's Board, on April 30th, passed a resolution setting an August 1, 2002 date for the permanent DVD CCA Board to take office.
It is Macrovision's understanding that the current DVD CCA Board has committed to work diligently on the watermarking technology selection process with every expectation that a decision will occur prior to August 1, 2002.
The DVD companies may hope that their next protection will not be cracked as easily as their CSS protection, but that it will be hacked one day is very likely. The only thing they can do is to make it the crackers as difficult as possible...
Source: Yahoo.com
