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HDCP: what it is and how to use it 什麼是HDCP？如何去運用？ Whether or not you believe in content protection, if you design digital-video products, you must deal with the technology. Heres what you need to know to start applying high-bandwidth digital-content protection. 無論你是否相信,在設計數字視頻產品時，你一定得處理HDCP技術。而開始應用高帶寬數字內容保護(HDCP)是需要去了解的。 By Jim Lyle, Silicon Image Inc -- EDN , 4/18/2002 The DVI (digital visual interface) delivers video images with very high resolution and essentially perfect quality. Although this capability is a boon to end users, it has sparked great concern in the entertainment industry, because it raises the specter of unauthorized mass duplication and distribution of perfect copies of Hollywoods most valuable content. DVI(數字視頻接口)傳輸的畫面解析度很高而且畫面本身的效果也很完美。盡管這種功能給終端用戶帶來了實惠，但是由於 這種技術成為各種盜版的克星，它在娛樂界引起了極大的關注。 Traditional copyright protections (such as infringement lawsuits) are suitable only in specific cases and are impractical on a mass scale. They would be entirely useless against the millions of people who might buy DVDs and copy them for their friends and relatives. Therefore, much of the consumer-electronics equipment available today incorporates copy-protection mechanisms. Different types of devices use different kinds of copy protection. Most techniques stem from cooperation between content providers and equipment manufacturers. For DVI, such a cooperative effort has produced a mechanism called HDCP (high-bandwidth digital-content protection), a two-part cryptographic method to control video delivery. 傳統的版權保護（諸如侵權訴訟）僅僅適用與特定的案例，而對於大多數而言是不切實際的。對那些數以百萬可能買DVD或拷貝DVD內容給他們的親人或朋友的人來說，傳統的版權保護可能完全起不到作用。因此，目前大量的可買得到的消費電子設備包含了版權保護功能。不同類型的裝置使用不同種類的版權保護。大部分技術源與內容供應商與設備制造商的合作。對於DVI這種合作的成果已經產生一個稱之為HDCP（高帶寬數字內容保護）的技術。它是一個用密碼寫的工具並用與控制視頻傳輸。 What HDCP is—and isnt HDCP是什麼?又不是什麼？ HDCP is content protection, not copy protection (or more accurately, copy restriction). The difference is subtle but very important. HDCP is not designed to prevent copying or recording, nor will it do