MPAA approves "military strength" encryption for video streaming

[Lee Stewart]

MPAA approves "military strength" encryption for video streaming

7 July 2008 15:38 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 10 comments

The MPAA has approved the use of DreamSteam "military strength" 2048-bit encryption to protect online video streaming content in an effort to stop the unauthorized downloads of the content.

"We are very excited to have the MPAA stand behind our technology," said Ulf Diebel, chief development officer for DreamStream. "The MPAA understands the need to be proactive - rather than reactive -- in addressing the chokehold that piracy has on the motion picture industry. Their recommendation is not something that Hollywood will take lightly."

Since being introduced to the system in March of this year, the MPAA has been reviewing the technology and has finally decided that it is a viable system for securing online content.

"We are very excited about our breakthrough technology. For the first time, digital content can be distributed without fear of piracy. By making it possible for studios and other copyright holders to secure their content, we can make it impossible for movies to be digitally pirated," said Diebel. "DreamStream can restore property rights to their owners and restore the commercial success of music and video recordings with a solution that benefits both producers and consumers."

As with all digital content, online media, including streaming, has fallen prey to piracy, but DreamSteam now feels they have the solution.

"The existing systems are broken," said Diebel. "If studios and artists want to confront the problem of piracy they must embrace a comprehensive restructuring of their distribution methods."

DreamSteam also says its media system gives users instant access to HD-quality content, including no processing delays. The technology also offers encryption never before seen for streaming content. Current systems use 128 bit encryption whereas DS uses 2048-bit encryption, and is considered military grade.

The company says its encryption has never been compromised by hackers or pirates. "Pirates are not just found in the movies anymore. Today’s pirate is a twelve-year-old sitting on a couch in Hong Kong. Or, worse yet, an unmanned fleet of Xbox’s all aimed at your server. Hacker attempts are no longer measured in how many per day but how many per second. It is just a matter of time until the pirate comes aboard your ship and breaks into the treasure chest. Unless they cannot see the ship. With DreamStream, your digital information is invisible. Your treasure chest is secured, and the key to it is encrypted with a 2048 bit encryption. Yes, a true digital fortress. A fortress that fits on a very small chip or hard drive!," reads DS' website.

"To win the war on piracy, the studios need DreamStream's military grade capabilities," concluded Diebel.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14716.cfm

[Sbert]

It would be too funny and ironic if they used the cell's processing power to break it

LOL, [agree to hacking@home.com terms and conditions]

We will utilize excess cell processing power to break a revolutionary 2048-bit encryption technology.

[ack_bak]

And people complained about BD+...

[theflux]

And people complained about BD+...

Funny how all the complaints fall to the wayside when you're a fanboy, eh?

Or how features you swore you could never do without suddenly aren't so important.

[aaronwt]

It would be too funny and ironic if they used the cell's processing power to break it

Not likely to happen..Nowhere close to the computational power you would need. UNless it can be upgraded to supercomputer status. And even witha supercomputer it would take a long time.

[StarrySkies]

It would be too funny and ironic if they used the cell's processing power to break it

That would be like throwing a paper airplane at a brick wall.

[aristotles]

That's all nice and all but it's quite worthless without the infrastructure to support it. Not everyone has the option of high bandwidth connections.

The marketplace will support whatever is realistically accessible to the majority of the marketplace. MSFT's dream of IPTV has been a failure because the infrastructure is not there and because the software is too damn complicated and unreliable.

[Beta-guy]

Not likely to happen..Nowhere close to the computational power you would need. UNless it can be upgraded to supercomputer status. And even witha supercomputer it would take a long time.

time to overclock my PS3...

[HiDefFanboy]

That would be like throwing a paper airplane at a brick wall.

True - but why try to go through a brick wall when the window is likely open. The tech is only as good as the key - and to play the content your computer or player has to have the key, otherwise it's just a stream of random bits. Now get that key into another program that can save the file to disk un-encrypted and bob's your uncle.

[Squozen]

Lee's banned again? What happened this time?

[David Forbes]

Lee's banned again? What happened this time?

I was wondering the same thing. I did a quick look through his most recent posts and didn't see anything too out of line. Certainly not like the last time.

[rmoody]

"the chokehold that piracy has on the motion picture industry"

whatever...last I looked they were still rolling in the money. It would only be a chokehold if they were in danger of going under. The ONLY thing that would cause them to go under is continued crappy content. But anyway...good luck with this encryption...as with any encryption system, someone has to have they key at some point to view it. The more complicated they make the plumbing.....

[vektsilver]

And people complained about BD+...

And we still do. This method is just encryption its not virtual OS that runs at the beginning of every startup and programs launched internally to check authentication or possibly anything else they want to occour with in this unlimited virtual OS.

I would have to think the option of a 2048 bit encryption was available to the mpaa before hand. Protecting their software isnt enough they want to know more than that I would assume, so hence BD+

[Solstice X]

I hate to say this, but DRM is a necessary evil. As for BD+, as long as I keep getting the digital copies(Thanks, Fox), and if managed copies ever comes out there really is no need to fret about it as long as you are a legal user.

I could care less for people who pirate media and violate copyright laws.

[ack_bak]

I could care less for people who pirate media and violate copyright laws.

Agreed. But as for this thread, no encryption is unbreakable.