Is hardware the key to piracy crackdown?

Some interesting words were said by some researchers this week: software alone can't stop digital piracy but only a totally secured infrastructure can. This means it have to use hardware.

The recommendations come as opposition builds against a proposed bill that would force hardware makers to add anti-copying features to MP3 players and other devices. Although legislators and device makers both see a need for a hardware solution to securing digital content, the groups are at odds over the government's efforts to regulate such technology.

"Every single device has to be secure," said Darko Kirovski, a researcher studying watermarking and security technologies at Microsoft Research. "If one device is not secure, then this (digital content protection) doesn't work."

They say "In order to prevent piracy, you really cannot rely on the current hardware and software," he said. "You cannot build software which is trusted if your hardware is not trusted." Looks like this researcher has a pretty good view on this issue. Of course he is also against the new CBDTPA (formerly known as SSSCA), which we reported about several days ago. This new act doesn't make any sense and doesn't 'stop the copying'.

If you are interested you can read the full article here on yahoo.

Source: yahoo