On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 06:54, Blammo wrote: > http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dvd15feb15,0,823039.story?coll=la-hom >e-business > > Quote: > Macrovision plans to unveil technology to block 97% of software used > to duplicate discs. > > The RipGuard technology would defeat the most popular of the ripping > programs, Macrovision's Gervin said, by tinkering with the format of > DVDs to make it impossible to extract data quickly from the discs. The > technique confounds ripping programs without damaging computers, > preventing the discs from playing or reducing picture quality, he > said. > And will they be allowed to display the oh so precious and restricted DVD-Video logo on these new bastardised discs?
These sort of measures are so annoying and frustrating from a technical point of view. All of the DVD error correction and checksumming was put there for a reason.... now Macrovision decides it would be smart to cover a disc with artificial errors. Brilliant. So what's the lifespan of these new discs going to be? I can imagine the pitch to the movie execs now: Mac: So you see what we do is cover the disc with errors. Exec: But won't that reduce the life of the disc. Mac: Indeed, and then they'll have to buy a new one. <penny drops> Exec: Ah. Genuis. We'll take it. Cheers, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased?
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