> Oh, c'mon--it was 40 bit encrypted anyway. Distributed.net could break
> that in under a day. Probably under an hour with their current MIPS, in
> truth. We just didn't know the bitlength going into it. I can't imagine
> the idiocy that believed 40 bit would be secure at all. I'm
> guessing/hoping it was for export reasons that it was so low. 40 bit DVD
> encryption is like saying that people can't or won't copy VHS because
> they'd have to have *gasp* two VCRs. What kind of freak has two VCRs?
I agree totally..
> The short of it is, both the music and video industries must realize that
> if they release digital media, there's *nothing* they can do to protect it
> from being ruthelessly copied by anyone willing to bother. Not to say
> analog is much better with TV-to-PC cards and whatnot.
I know I know!
> So the music industry's claiming an 11% loss to MP3? Do they know how good
> they've got it? 89% of their revenue-producing customers, *89* percent,
> would rather pay an inflated, ridiculous price for the CD rather than
> invest a piddly amount of time in downloading the hits off of it for FREE.
> Were I them, I'd be breaking out the chapagne. This changes nothing.
It's a figure, and that's how the corporate world works.. some asshole at
Columbia Pictures who doesn't really understand his job will make a
presentation to his boss that 'the music industry claimed an 11% loss due
to mp3's, and we can expect a similar loss' not taking into account the
fact that an mp3 is about 5mb, making an album no more than, say, 100MB -
and always less in the cases I've seen, probably 60 or so.. a DVD is
broken up into ~4GB of .VOB files (on both sides, I think) and interactive
content that, imho, is what makes dvd worth the while (all of the extra
stuff, like blair witch having an hour and a half of director's commentary
and the documentary they made for the sci-fi channel)..
> Before this, people were swapping huge-ass .vcd files of movies ripped off
> of VHS tapes taken at the movies. Now they'll trace huge-ass .vcds ripped
yes but very few people did this, and very few will continue to.. the
thing is, the quality of a ripped dvd would be far above that of a vhs
take from a movie theatre - even when converted to lower quality to fit on
a VCD..
> from the DVDs. Better quality. woohoo. They still take up gigs worth of
> space. I'm not concerned about piracy going crazy, but I am concerned
> about DVD going cold.
I feel exactly the same way - I'm afraid of the movie theaters getting
scared just when DVD is getting big.. DVD isn't quite 'there' yet.. it's
damn close, but it isn't as made as VHS by far, and it could still be
supplanted, and I would be screwed for $300 worth of DVD player and about
$300 worth of movies so far..
> I suggest that if people start pulling out of DVD, that consumers demand a
> DIVX-like settlement. 40bit can be found to be not a 'reasonalbe
> expectation of privacy', I'd imagine, and their mismanagement and fumbling,
> and Xing's huge Ooooops gives a great case for the consumer. "It's not our
> fault that we paid $300 for players that you're stopping supporting because
> of idiocy on your part."
how did the DIVX settlement go? I didn't really care at the time ;p
-Justin
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