Arm produces phone processor with antipiracy code builtin

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Arm has produced possibly the first mobile processor with anti piracy measures built in it. The processor Mali V500 was made on insistance of Hollywood group to protect pirated copies of high definition movies from being played on the phone.

Developed on Hollywood’s demand, the Mali-V500 video processor is the first mobile chip optimized to prevent high-definition video from being pirated.

Hollywood movie studios and major content distributors like Netflix and others are demanding for premium or early window content – their highest-value content – to be protected not just by digital rights management but by the hardware, all the way from download through to display.

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/arm-launches-hollywood-approved-anti-piracy-processor-130603/