Let me get this right. ... ... A blockbuster worth $100m gets cracked ... and the crack gets watermarked with the Id of the $100 machine that played it. ... So the solution is to punish the $100 machine by asking them to call Disney with a CC in hand?
If you're in a profit-making business of pirating DVDs for money, then having your $100 DVD burner stop being able to play DVDs from a given studio is just a business expense.
But if you're a typical hobbyist pirate, file-sharing your DVDs for free to other people who are sharing their pirated DVDs, rather than spending $2 to rent them at Blockbuster, then it's probably really annoying, and you're probably out of business with that DVD burner, though your other $39 DVD player can play them just fine.
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Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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