copy protections?

[lostinlodos]

Originally Posted by James

I don't.

LOL

No; my interest stems purely from the fact that when it comes to entertainment I try to stay on the bleeding edge.
Anything that Sly may have come across /may/ be helpful, to me and others, personally, to see about finding an in into both Silverlight and FlashLock.

Along with that there's also the issue I'm still trying to work out in finding a way to backup and convert China Blue discs. Something that Sly has no reason /yet/ to work on.
10 years from now when ScruRay BluRay is just a distant memory CBHD will be the replacement, albeit with a different name.
Something I still haven't found an inroad into.

All that said: I understand them playing it safe and not posting. Good points were made on the fact that Crappywood The Ancients may be reading; not to mention competitors.
So I'll leave it at that, with this final statement.

If anyone on the dev team ever wants extra help on the outskirts of the industries formats and things not quite directly related (streaming DRM), I'd be happy to help. PM or email me. The big guys can access my email address from my registration here.

Not expecting a reply but the offer is there. As I've made it before.

[vze2mp9g]

I don't think that China Blue discs will be in the future because Blu-Ray discs haven't taken a good hold on the market yet. Plus, China Blue discs are only have a capacity of 15GB single-layer and 30GB dual-layer. This is less than the currenet Blu-Ray discs. CBHD was first introduced in September 2007 and it can utilise existing DVD production lines. IMHO, this seems like old technology. You can read more about it at China Blue High-definition Disc.

[lostinlodos]

Originally Posted by vze2mp9g

I don't think that China Blue discs will be in the future because Blu-Ray discs haven't taken a good hold on the market yet. Plus, China Blue discs are only have a capacity of 15GB single-layer and 30GB dual-layer. This is less than the currenet Blu-Ray discs. CBHD was first introduced in September 2007 and it can utilise existing DVD production lines. IMHO, this seems like old technology. You can read more about it at China Blue High-definition Disc.

CBHD is a variant of HD-DVD; the superior format of the two blue laser discs.
That article is rather inaccurate. You can check the CHDVD and CH-DVD page logs to see a rather intense battle a few years ago between various members (including myself).

I had bought a CH-DVD player when they first came out, CBHD is nearly identical, and a firmware update made the player work fine.
They didn't pick up yet, but HD-DVD outsold BluRay in /most/ markets until hollywood killed the format.
CBHD discs ARE HD-DVD discs. Just different content protection and structural layout variances. As such they have the same revision support HD-DVD had.
The format has a theoretical limit of 8 layers; 120Gb. Though nothing out there exceeds 3 layers yet.

And that's going way off topic.
Point being, I'm well aware Sly can't,won't, and shouldn't worry about what's fringe. But they /could/ encourage others to atleast start looking into it. And support the company by passing along keys, codes, and matrices that work, or don't.

[vze2mp9g]

It's just like back in the days of video tapes. Sony's Betamax was/is superior to JVC's VHS, and VHS won out over Betamax.

At some point and for some reason the choice of rental movies on VHS became better than Betamax. It is arguable how this situation came to be, but once it happened, there was no turning back. Bitter Betamax owners cringed in their ever-decreasing corner of the video store while VHS owners gloated.

The war was over by the late 1980s, although supporters of Betamax have helped keep the format going in a small niche market. Betamax production in America ended in 1993, and the last Betamax machine in the world was produced in Japan in 2002.

Of course, both Betamax and VHS were eventually made obsolete by digital technology with DVDs and now Blu-Ray DVDs.