Dynamic Media Solutions, an Israeli company, says it has developed a "novel technology" that, it claims, will provide a "far-reaching copy protection solution for current and next-generation optical media, which include CD/DVD, CD/DVD recordable, and DVD-Video media." Furthermore, they say it is fully compatible with todays hardware players and cheap. The system applies directly to the restriction of DVD-Audio discs, but not audio CDs at this time however.
According to DMS, the result is an approach that offers customized configurations for each title to provide copy restriction from the compilation/authoring stages through to the consumer release. "It makes 1:1 copying virtually impossible, employs an extremely high level of hacking protection and prevents unauthorized mass production," the company claims. DMS says its current version allows for a limited number of authorized backups, with both the source and backups restricted, and that it will continue to develop new generations of chemical compounds, "each one providing different protection characteristics, ensuring the technology's dynamic, long-term copy protection." |
Yeah, that's what this world needs now, a chemical based DRM. A type of DRM that requires constant new generations of mysterious patented compounds in order to confound the "casual copier". Best of all, it's "cheap". This is bad news of course, as we know that there's no way anyone at CD Freaks would be able to thwart such a sophisticated, two-fisted DRM strategy. Oh, wait a minute! Did anyone else see the words ""It makes 1:1 copying virtually impossible " in the above quote? I wonder what that means?
Source: Stereophile Magazine
