Copyright Protection ? Is it really possible ?

[alertjean]

I was wondering whether I can postulate:
A tamperproof copyright protection of any kind of media is impossible.
Whatever you do with the original media it will have to be converted
to something intelligible to human beings just before it leaves the
computer or the media player. As long as this is going to happen I can
either read the audio or video buffer and make a copy of the original
data.
Is there any point doing research on copyright protection ?

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[Keith Thompson]

al*******@rediffmail.com writes:

I was wondering whether I can postulate:
A tamperproof copyright protection of any kind of media is impossible.
Whatever you do with the original media it will have to be converted
to something intelligible to human beings just before it leaves the
computer or the media player. As long as this is going to happen I can
either read the audio or video buffer and make a copy of the original
data.
Is there any point doing research on copyright protection ?

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It isn't.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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