Cinavia:... The DRM of DOOM.....?

[drokk54]

Cinavia:... The DRM of DOOM.....?
Cinavia:... The DRM of DOOM.....? First it showed its head on "The Loosers"... and now more showing up.......

Its a kind of Macrovision for 2010 that sits on your disk as an audio watermark... and cuts off your sound of the film, while displaying a nice copyright message.

All new players manufactured from NOW will have it.

The latest firmware update for PS3 gives it to the the PS3 also.

Is the end of playing Bluray backups on Bluray disks, or streaming to PS3?

(Not to mention Screeners, Xvids R5's)
I know a lot of folk here stream from Popcorn Hour's and other tool that do the same job... and they wont have the Cinavia detection that the PS3 has just aquired, and new manufactured players will have......... but lets say in the future ALL media players haver to include it as part of there licence?
(Like macrovision was embedded in the old days of VHS)

And how cud u fix such a DRM..? Is Slysoft gonna do it again... or are we gonna find it awkward from now on..?

And how cud u fix such a DRM..?

[megabyteme]

Like every other protection scheme the Industries have conjured up, this one will be FAR more of a PITA for paying customers than it will be for those of us who are more "consumer-oriented" in our thinking...:P

[HellBoi2087]

Cinavia:... The DRM of DOOM.....?
Cinavia:... The DRM of DOOM.....? First it showed its head on "The Loosers"... and now more showing up.......

Its a kind of Macrovision for 2010 that sits on your disk as an audio watermark... and cuts off your sound of the film, while displaying a nice copyright message.

[...snip...]

And how cud u fix such a DRM..? Is Slysoft gonna do it again... or are we gonna find it awkward from now on..?

And how cud u fix such a DRM..?

General way you attack all watermarks, restorative techniques or destructive techniques. Well, that's if the mechanism which produces it is beyond your ken, and it's probably not. In any event, if you can't prevent the watermark from being embedded, then you either attempt to blend it into the background or bleed-out all the tainted components. Also depends on how clever/sensitive the detection mechanisms are. If the WM is poorly-designed, as it may well be, then it could theoretically be neutralized by a simple recoding. You might lose some quality there, but probably a lot less than any blend or bleed.