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CSS body wants to extend control over home servers
The DVD Copy Control Association has indicated it wants to amend the licence underpinning the use of its DVD copy-protection Content Scrambling System (CSS) technology. This would necessitate that the original DVD disc be installed in a DVD drive whener it is being watched.
The proposed amendment states: "DVD products, alone or in combination with other DVD products, shall not be designed to descramble scrambled CSS data when the DVD disc containing such CSS data and associated CSS keys is not physically present in the DVD player or DVD drive (as applicable), and a DVD product shall not be designed to make or direct the making of a persistent copy of CSS data that has been descrambled from such DVD disc by such DVD product."
The move is seen to be directed against suppliers of video home servers that enable legal copying of DVDs for use in multi-room display systems.
In March this year, one such provider of network-attached movie-streaming server products, Kaleidescape, was found not to infringe the existing CSS licensing terms.
Story filed 01.07.07
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