Norwegian Hackers Crack DVD Code.Late last year, a group of Norwegian programmers posted a program called DeCSS on the Internet. The program overrides the scrambling system built into DVD players A stand-alone device that plays DVDs. It contains a DVD drive and the electronics to decode the digital video. The device may play only manufactured DVDs, or it may be able to play DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs. DVD players are cabled to a TV or home theater system for display. and discs and enables movie files to be downloaded to the hard drive. Programmers familiar with the encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. technology faulted the weakness of the DVD encryption See CSS and DeCSS. scheme and the carelessness of one DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. manufacturer. The news is a blow to the film industry as well as the home video market. Many studios had insisted on universal protection from film pirates before releasing their libraries and new releases onto digital disk and pirated movies cost millions to the home video industry. Downloading the films from the Internet may prove difficult though, as film files are typically three to four gigabytes large. |
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