De release van DVD Audio produkten is met een half jaar vertraagd vanwege gebakkelij rond de te gebruiken copy protection methode, zo schrijft CNN. De platen maffia heeft geen trek in verglijkbaar fiasco als bij de gehackte DVD Video beveiliging en heeft daarom een nieuw systeem met betere beveiliging voorgesteld:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which is better known by its Panasonic brand name, expects a six-month delay in the launch of DVD Audio products as the format's developers scramble to find a new copyright protection system.DVD Audio was to use CSS2, a newer version of the content scrambling system (CSS) employed on DVD Video. Those plans are now in disarray after the CSS system was hacked a month ago, the company said Wednesday (see "DVD encryption hacked," link below).
"Because of the hacking on DVD Video, industry people are worried about the possible hacking on DVD Audio, and so people are talking about much stronger protection," said Yoshihiro Kitadeya, a spokesman for Matsushita Electric. "Matsushita will propose a new system of copy protection with a much stronger key and completely new encoding system."