RFID Embedded Discs to Stop Piracy for Good Says Ritek

[wraggster]

The technology will also find its way into drives and players. When a user places a disc inside a player, the RFID reader will verify whether or not a disc has been copied or whether or not a movie is being played in the correct geographical location. Unfortunately, this also means that users will be unable to make home backups of discs and store away originals for safe keeping.

Ritek's chief executive officer Gordon Yeh said "this technology holds the potential to protect the intellectual property of music companies, film studios and gaming and software developers worldwide." Apparently, a new RFID equipped DVD drive will perform the security check by hardware, and not require system drivers or specialized software. The intent is to prevent users from creating software to circumvent the RFID mechanism. The online enthusiast community however, has been successfully modifying driver firmware for a number of years.

[razorak]

no back-ups??!!! that sucks!

[quzar]

source?

[dejkirkby]

We have a legal right to create a back-up of our discs haven't we?

[razorak]

We have a legal right to create a back-up of our discs haven't we?

We shud...i think
After all we did purchase them and i don't see any shops that supply 'warranty' if the disc snaps, get scratches or stolen

[JD/]

if this does happen it probably wont happen for a long time and anyway there will be a way around it there always is

[SSaxdude]

If not back ups, then we can just download .avi of the movies we own and then burn them to DVD.