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But among the people there were clever programmers too and they found ways to break the handcuffs. So for instance, DVDs were designed to have encrypted movies in a secret encryption format, and the idea was that all the programs to decrypt the video would be proprietary with digital handcuffs. They would all be designed to restrict the users. And their scheme worked OK for a while. But some people in Europe figured out the encryption and they released a free program that could actually play the video on a DVD.