Hell Yeah!
Feb. 13th, 2007 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
octothorpeSlashdot | HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken
Note to others:
This does not mean I condone illegal distribution of copyrighted material. I do however, condone the ability for a person to play the disc they purchased on any hardware they own for their own personal use. Cracking the silly DRM scheme allows me (and others) to do this.
Note to others:
This does not mean I condone illegal distribution of copyrighted material. I do however, condone the ability for a person to play the disc they purchased on any hardware they own for their own personal use. Cracking the silly DRM scheme allows me (and others) to do this.
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Date: 2007-02-13 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-13 08:40 pm (UTC)Of course, often, people don't even notice that they're not watching the HD version, as the internal scaler is "good enough". These are the same people who don't realise their showing material at the wrong aspect ratio.
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Date: 2007-02-13 08:40 pm (UTC)And this was supposed to be "unbreakable" - well, maybe technically it is - but how good is an "unpickable" lock when you've left the key under the doormat?
As for playing content wherever one wants - that's exactly where DeCSS came from, which touched off an explosion of Fair Use of DVDs... ;)
As has been said over and over - the answer is reasonable pricing and providing advantages a ripped/recoded copy won't have. Oh yeah, and media companies finally admitting that Fair Use really exists.
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Date: 2007-02-14 04:12 am (UTC)*burp*