> > I beleive in open standards as much as the next guy, but if it
> > drives the movie industry to stop putting movies on DVD I'll be
> > pretty upset - as the article said, it's better for the limitation
> > to be in hardware than in content..
>
> I thounk you have bought into the hype and misinformation of the
> movie industry. The truth is that the movie industry has never been
> able to elminate anauthorized duplication of movies on any format and
> yet they continue to publish. To suggest that they would stop
> producing movies if their "security" features were overcome is a bit
> ludicrous, IMHO.
I don't think it will happen, but I think it's possible.. The music
industry is reporting like 11% revenue losses due to mp3's - the way I
see it is that it's nothing to download an album in mp3 format,
espescially compared to a 4GB, or even 600MB (low quality) DVD movie.
they see it as being significantly easier and less expensive to copy a DVD
than to copy a videocassete - as untrue as that really is (you can't even
copy movies in the current DVD-R drives, and few people would be willing
to download 4GB of .VOB files rather than spending $25 on the disc).. I'm
worried more about the older, classic movies that aren't out yet than the
upcoming movies.. I have no doubt that the new movies will hit DVD, but
there is still only one shelf out of 50 or so at blockbuster that has DVDs
on it..
> Personally, I think it serves them right. While DVD is certainly
> better than DIVX, let's not forget that DVD is a very flawed format.
> Not only do we have the fact that the discs can only be played by
> "authorized" players, the problem we are discussing here, but also it
> contains the highly unethical region lockout mechanism. All that has
> happened now is that the unfair and unethical restrictions on DVD
> technology have been overcome and the playingfield has been set to
> what it should have been all along.
That's all fine and good - but without those limitations, DVD would have
never succeeded in the first place.
I prefer to have DVD's with unethical security features than VHS with
none..
Wasn't LaserDisc free of any copy protection? didn't it suffer from a
severe lack of movies?
> > Xing could also probably be somewhat liable for this mistake,
> > depending on the conditions of licensing the CSS decryption
> > technology..
>
> We'll see. I hope not. Is so, maybe I'll have to send that
> contribution to their legal defense fund. :)
heh ;p
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