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It is crazy... the number of strategies being applied to media to prevent them being simply played. It's going to reach the point where 80% of the processor power used in playing media is involved in encryption / decryption / error checking and correcting and filtering - all to deal with damned protections!

It'll all come crashing down once it gets to the point where large manufacturers can no longer produce drives or media that can be relied on to actually play the damned media in the first place.

This rampant layering of protections is madness.
Posted by: mad.mutt   Posted on: 02/15/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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