Wednesday, 22. January 2003
So CSS is not about anti-piracy.
After wondering why CSS is called an "anti piracy measure" I got a nice explanation at Freedom To Tinker and found basically my understanding of CSS dupported at several places.
Ross Anderson describes CSS as:
For example, the DVD Content Scrambling System was used as a means of insisting that manufacturers of compatible equipment signed up to a whole list of copyright protection measures.Lessing writes basically the same in "The future of Ideas".
So CSS is just for one thing: enforcement of the terms of a cartel/monopoly. This terms seem to include a fistfull of customer unfriendly measures like region codes/no advertising skipping/copy protection. It is aimed at the producers of DVD players, not at the consumer. So CSS is a tool used to enforce player builders to implement -beside others - anti-piracy measures. Doing so might be illegal cartel action.
Still I see CSS called a anti-piracy meassure in most media. Even worse cluful media calls CSS a security measure or something like this and usually does not point out that CSS is about enforcing a monopoly not about copy protection.
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