Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RealMagic DVD-cards | Date | Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:57:18 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I'm assuming the DVD industry hasn't been overly cooperative in the matter? I > would think that to some degree, the decoding specs would be published so that > hardware manufacturers could get access to them. Is it reverse engineering on > everyone's end? Or just ours?
You can sign NDA's for the info for a fee (about $15,000 I seem to remember) but then can't release the info itself. Also if you do a software decoder and your decoder is 'cracked' to open the spec you agree to pay them a huge fine.
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