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Hackers broke through the antipiracy wrappers on DVDs years ago. Macrovision says it can now plug that hole--mostly.
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What is the solution? Who even implied there WAS one?
Sure, you can pass laws and prosecute offenders... but this method has been tried against far more serious crimes (like, say, MURDER) and look at the results. A lot of time, effort and money are spent using this method. For murder, it's well spent. Are copyright violations worthy of it? Will anyone other than lawyers truly benefit?
I have seen copyright issues following technological advances ever since the Xerox machine. So far, in each case, after a surge of violations the problem "magically disappears" - primarily due to a loss of interest (or change in technology). I see no reason to believe it will be any different today.
What is the solution? Who even implied there WAS one?
Sure, you can pass laws and prosecute offenders... but this method has been tried against far more serious crimes (like, say, MURDER) and look at the results. A lot of time, effort and money are spent using this method. For murder, it's well spent. Are copyright violations worthy of it? Will anyone other than lawyers truly benefit?
I have seen copyright issues following technological advances ever since the Xerox machine. So far, in each case, after a surge of violations the problem "magically disappears" - primarily due to a loss of interest (or change in technology). I see no reason to believe it will be any different today.
Quick education for those who aren't up on copyright protection: a protection scheme either works 100% of the time, or 0%. There is no 97%. If even one cracker on the planet knows how to crack it, the entire cracker community will know tomorrow (and that one cracker will be king for a day.) This scheme will last for as long as it takes to update existing cracker software with the new info.
You know, this really is a historical first... In the beginning, there were copyright schemes which lasted years. Then there were schemes that lasted weeks. Then there were schemes which were broken before they were even released. I personally didn't think that could be topped. But now, for the first time in history, we have a major copyright scheme which was broken before it was even conceived. Yipes!
What gets me is that all media outlets (even supposedly technologically literate ones) are running headlines like "DVD Pirates Defeated!" Has the time finally arrived when we have to go to the blogs to get responsible, fact-checked reporting?
Quick education for those who aren't up on copyright protection: a protection scheme either works 100% of the time, or 0%. There is no 97%. If even one cracker on the planet knows how to crack it, the entire cracker community will know tomorrow (and that one cracker will be king for a day.) This scheme will last for as long as it takes to update existing cracker software with the new info.
You know, this really is a historical first... In the beginning, there were copyright schemes which lasted years. Then there were schemes that lasted weeks. Then there were schemes which were broken before they were even released. I personally didn't think that could be topped. But now, for the first time in history, we have a major copyright scheme which was broken before it was even conceived. Yipes!
What gets me is that all media outlets (even supposedly technologically literate ones) are running headlines like "DVD Pirates Defeated!" Has the time finally arrived when we have to go to the blogs to get responsible, fact-checked reporting?
been worthless. They make copying inconvenient
(sometimes), but they've made millions off
half-assed solutions. In this particular case,
they've canvased a small number of applications
(probably just Microsoft Windows based ones) and
looked for bugs in the decryption or transcoding
algorithms and then plan to distribute encoding
parameters to licensees that will trigger the
bugs. Dumb. It's a solution that will be obsolete
with the next update to the software (probably
even if the author isn't intentionally trying to
thwart the Macrovision approach).
It strikes me that with people like Macrovision
taking advantage of Hollywood, the bad press
surrounding suing fans and casual viewers, and
the festering discontent of contorted DRM
restrictions interfering with people's TiVOs and
whatnot are costing the industry many times what
they lose from piracy (excluding organized
large-scale piracy like off-shore duplicators
that channel their wares to retail outlets).
The entertainment industry really needs to come
to terms with the digital age before it utterly
leaves them behind. The whole notion of skewing
laws and technology to enforce an increasingly
outdated business model is snowballing into a
hugely expensive, unworkable, and increasingly
irrelevent play at maintaining the status quo.
It's going to take one new entity that "gets it"
to appear and dig themselves in, and the whole
house of cards will come crashing down on the
old-school...
If someone from the entertainment industry is
listening: start with the presumption that in 3
years time there will be, effectively, no such
thing as copy protection or digital rights
management -- what then? The writing is on the
wall. If you can develop a business with that
assumption, you'll be rich as Croesus, otherwise
you ought to be thinking about what you can do to
round out your resume -- nobody likes a foresworn
loser.
been worthless. They make copying inconvenient
(sometimes), but they've made millions off
half-assed solutions. In this particular case,
they've canvased a small number of applications
(probably just Microsoft Windows based ones) and
looked for bugs in the decryption or transcoding
algorithms and then plan to distribute encoding
parameters to licensees that will trigger the
bugs. Dumb. It's a solution that will be obsolete
with the next update to the software (probably
even if the author isn't intentionally trying to
thwart the Macrovision approach).
It strikes me that with people like Macrovision
taking advantage of Hollywood, the bad press
surrounding suing fans and casual viewers, and
the festering discontent of contorted DRM
restrictions interfering with people's TiVOs and
whatnot are costing the industry many times what
they lose from piracy (excluding organized
large-scale piracy like off-shore duplicators
that channel their wares to retail outlets).
The entertainment industry really needs to come
to terms with the digital age before it utterly
leaves them behind. The whole notion of skewing
laws and technology to enforce an increasingly
outdated business model is snowballing into a
hugely expensive, unworkable, and increasingly
irrelevent play at maintaining the status quo.
It's going to take one new entity that "gets it"
to appear and dig themselves in, and the whole
house of cards will come crashing down on the
old-school...
If someone from the entertainment industry is
listening: start with the presumption that in 3
years time there will be, effectively, no such
thing as copy protection or digital rights
management -- what then? The writing is on the
wall. If you can develop a business with that
assumption, you'll be rich as Croesus, otherwise
you ought to be thinking about what you can do to
round out your resume -- nobody likes a foresworn
loser.
If the industry gives consumers what they want, then they will sell more. Instead the industry wants to sell less for more, make things inconvenient, and restrict consumers freedom. Does not seem like the smart way to run companies in the long run.
If the industry gives consumers what they want, then they will sell more. Instead the industry wants to sell less for more, make things inconvenient, and restrict consumers freedom. Does not seem like the smart way to run companies in the long run.
Until there's free replacement of DVDs when they stop working there MUST be the ability to back them up, effective copy protection is not only immoral, it is completely unfair to customers.
Until there's free replacement of DVDs when they stop working there MUST be the ability to back them up, effective copy protection is not only immoral, it is completely unfair to customers.
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