Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: September 23, 2006 12:44:47 AM GMT+02:00 To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Not exactly responsive to consumer demand ... Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Note: This comment comes from reader Thomas Leavitt. DLH] From: Thomas Leavitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: September 22, 2006 11:10:19 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] Not exactly responsive to consumer demand ... ..... why these companies continue to persist with DRM efforts, in the face of massive evidence that they are fundamentally futile (c.f. the recent report that "hackers" have managed to bypass Blu-ray and HD-DVD DRM by the insanely simple brute force technique of scripted "PrintScreen" keypresses), is beyond me... if a human eye can see it and the human ear can hear it, the item in question can be pirated. That's pretty fundamental. Or has the fact escaped these folks that most of the "pirated" DVD movies sold in East Asia and many of those distributed online, are from video cameras snuck into movie theatres? People *pay* for what, by all reports, is often lousy quality video. Really, what is to prevent me from sticking a video camera in front of a television and simply making a similar recording, and then digitizing the result and putting it up on the blacknet? Sure, the quality may be less than perfect, but in all likelihood, it is going to be way better than VHS at this point... and look how long people put up with that! ... and I'm sure professionals will have even better techniques. So what are they accomplishing here? I'm baffled. Thomas Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [email protected] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
