Macrovision needed probably some good news to lift their stocks and has released news to the press that they have been awarded U.S. Patent #6,353,890 for a method of copy protecting CD content ("Method For Copy Protecting A Record Carrier, Copy Protected Record Carrier And Means For Detecting Access Control Information").
According to Macrovision the patent is essential to the companies future and the company expects other extensions in its usage in the future, on other types of optical media such as DVD
Bill Krepick, president and CEO of Macrovision added, "The SafeDisc patent augments our portfolio of patented copy protection technologies, enabling us to offer critical solutions for the music and software industries. SafeDisc is established as the PC games industry's leading copy protection solution, now being used on approximately 80% of the top U.S. PC games(2). |
This patent will further enhance our leading position in that market and in the application software market, as well as give us added strength in our music copy protection business with our recently introduced SafeAuthenticate solution."
I know that some of you will probably say, heck this protection has already been beaten, but note that their protection is pretty good and is not easily copyable by the average home user and that is where copy protections are about.
They are not intended to be unbreakable, every copy protection is, but they try to make it as hard as possible for you to make a pirated copy (and unfortunately also a backup), because the more time you spend on it, the bigger the chance you will give up...
Source: Yahoo.com
