In case DRM hasn’t caused you — the honest consumer — enough pain already. Check it, you’ve got some required software updating to do now that Corel has introduced a patch to their cracked InterVideo WinDVD software. Best do it pronto too. According to Corel, “failure to apply the update will result in AACS-protected HD DVD and BD playback being disabled.” That means no more hi-def movies for you, Mr. assumed criminal. Thing is, this is no ordinary patch since WinDVD exposed the hardware specific device key to video pirates. So not only are you required to update their janky WinDVD software, you also have to track down and install the paticular AACS patch for the HD DVD or BD player you own. Of course this only patches one flaw in the massively compromised DRM boondoggle. And just think, you can repeat the whole process again after hackers circumvent this latest attempt at “content protection.” Isn’t DRM nice?
We just rented Stranger than Fiction and tried playing it on our 4 year old Toshiba proscan DVD player. Guess what? Sony has, once again, put some type of copy protection on the DVD and it causes some models of DVD players to shutdown. We got it working on our 8 year old Panasonic player. Doing some googling found many people having the same problem with the latest DVD releases.
They do that enough, disable playing on existing equipment, of legitimate DVD buyers and renters, and people might start getting pissed off enough to get the laws changed. Maybe. These DRM companies are playing with fire, especially given what’s happening with DRM music.
“It’s a slippery slope,” mourned the RIAA lawyer as he slipped out of town with his trunk full of money.
PROBLEM…
DRM only works on something that can READ and store data…
Your computer is one of those devices.
NOT a HD/BR player…
It only decodes the data, and plays it.
In other words, Corel is encouraging its clientele to buy products from the competition.
5…
Thats NOT DRM, thats CSS encrytpion….DUH…