The FCC has approved the DVD+RW Alliance’s preferred copy-protection system, VCPS (Video Content Protection System). VCPS will use the ‘Broadcast Flag’ to limit the number of times a digital television show recorded onto a recordable DVD can be duplicated.

VCPS was developed by HP and Philips under the codename ‘Vidi’. Both are DVD+RW Alliance members. So is Thomson, and it too has received FCC approval for its own Broadcast Flag support system, SmartRight.

With the millions and millions of dollars corporations are expected to spend on DRM technologies in the coming years, it will be interesting to see how quickly these DRMs are ‘hacked’. We do not expect to be limited by the ‘Broadcast Flag’. Do you?

Read all about it here.

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