Oak Technology heeft een chip in ontwikkeling die na plaatsing in CD-RW drives moet voorkomen dat er illegaal kopies worden gemaakt van CD's. Op zich leuk bedacht omdat software-based methodes nooit succesvol zijn geweest. Probleem is alleen dat (a) als het echt blijkt te werken ons recht om backups te maken mooi foetsie is, en (b) dat heel de wereld al een writer heeft zonder dat chippie . Hieronder het artikel:
Oak Technology Inc. here disclosed development of a chip-based approach to providing the highest level of protection against unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted materials with compact-disk recordings.
The approach is being jointly developed with startup Earjam.com Inc., which is leveraging its Internet music player technology with Oak's expertise in controllers for optical storage systems.
"We are enhancing CD-RW [recordable/rewritable drive] electronics to facilitate the protection of CD-based content," said Young Sohn, president and CEO of Oak Technology, which supplies controllers and software to many of the leading manufacturers of drives. "This chip-based approach at the controller level offers greater protection than media-based options, which are more susceptible to hacking or reverse-engineering," he added.