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From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT Dimension as descrambler
Keywords: piracy, digital audio
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Date: 1 Oct 90 02:27:10 GMT
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In article <443@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> dgc@euphemia.math.ucla.edu (David G. Cantor) writes:
>Most cable TV scrambling systems simply suppress or otherwise confuse
>the synch and may invert the color in the composite video signal. 
>Presumebably, since the NeXT Dimension can do real-time video digital
>computations, it could perform real-time descrambling quite easily.

Or, just as tantalizing... since the NeXT has 16-bit audio capability, it
could serve just as easily as a "black box" for DAT.  You could read in the
music, add the "black frequency" that is masked out for DAT copy-protection,
and write it back to another tape.  Surely the interface wouldn't be too
expensive.  Modern technology will make the recording industry (and anyone
else who thinks his survival depends on blocking the free flow of
information) a dead duck.  Few will mourn...

	-Curtis
"Your eyeballs feel like pinballs, and your tongue feels like a fish"
		-The Clash