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Copying HD DVD and Blu-ray discs may become legal – MacWorld.com: Under a licensing agreement in its final stages, consumers may get the right to make several legal copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they’ve purchased, a concession by the movie industry that may quell criticism that DRM (digital rights management) technologies are too restrictive.
The agreement, if supported by movie studios and film companies, could allow a consumer to make a backup copy in case their original disc is damaged and another copy for their home media server, said Michael Ayers, a representative of an industry group that licenses the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) copy-prevention system.
Right, and you think that this will represent no additional cost to you? Think again.
The idea is that the content companies could charge a premium according to how many copies are allowed, Ayers said. It remains a possibility that consumers, if given the chance to make three copies of “Spider-man 2” could give those copies to their neighbors, which technically would qualify as low-volume piracy.
Well, this doesn’t represent the elimination of DRM, but a shift in its implementation. Will this be enough for consumers? The idea that a movie studio can have complete knowledge of my copying habits seems creepy.
I wonder what would happen if I ran a blue-ray disc through the photocopier?
Do not worry your sweet little heads about it…
The DMCA and DRM may be evil, but as long as there are software engineers, or even teenage hackers, they will remain what they are today.
Toothless.
The mantra that “Information wants to be free” isn’t a political or ethical idea. It’s a natural law. Data doesn’t care if you want to protect it, profit by it, or hide it from others. Right or wrong, legal or illegal, these ideas are not a part of the equation.
Copy protection was a doomed idea from the very beginning. They won’t limit your copies, or even be able to monitor them. They will remail blind and desperate. I actually sympathize with them. That sort of desperation must be agonizing.
I don’t believe anything these people say anymore.
#2 – Well said. I’m tired of the “DRM is going to ruin your life” posts.
Personally, I see this opening up just in time for Apple to come out with Blu-Ray recording in its high-end computers at WWDC.
#4 – Yes. DRM will not ruin our lives. It is ruining media industries, but we are just in a loooooong paradigm shift* so in the end, it will be okay.
*I had to go back to the late 90s for that buzz phrase 🙂
#4
And I can’t wait for the mac fanbois to yap “Apple came with this kind of DRM first!”
DRM won’t ruin your life unless you get sued after you break it.
#6 – Angel, you’re missing the point. From the start, DRM was an Apple plot to get Microsoft to ruin its new OS. Naturally, as soon as Microsoft was irreversibly committed to building DRM into its product – Apple reverses its stand, the snickering content producers go along with Steve Jobs and poor Microsoft is utterly destroyed. See? You just didn’t get it.
Okay, okay, time for my meds.
#5 – Revenge of the buzz words! Personally, I think the death of companies that can’t handle said paradigm shift is a good thing. Hell, my wife’s show has almost all of it’s content on the web with in hours after the show airs… and it’s helping their ratings.
#6, #8 – It does set up an odd white hat scenario for Apple. Shows you what being second to the dance can do for you.
Time to Surrender? Industry experts question the future of digital rights management in the face of the latest assault on AACS encryption. A tool from SlySoft can bypass the newest AACS (HD and Blu-ray.)
05/24/2007:
http://www.physorg.com/news99221946.html
10. Bubba, isnt Slysoft great. I love that software.
I see to many copyrights infringe on THemselves.
In many ways they HOLD back the corps from buying UP new tech.
The problem comes when i hae a GREAT IDEA, the corps WONT pay me for it, unless I drop the copyright and just LET them have it.
11, mark, SlySoft works as advertised and is pretty fast, too. BTW, left you something on that article about War on Terror – Bumper Sticker.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=11603
#4 – James Hill
“…just in time for Apple to come out with Blu-Ray recording in its high-end computers at WWDC.”
Mark my words: a combo HD / Blu-Ray burner will very soon be an option on the 8-core Pros, maybe even before the conference…
#14 – I think that’s as good of a call as any. Apple doesn’t want to make another Firewire-esque decision when it comes to their devices, and going the combo-drive route takes care of this.
Wonder when this will make it to the MacBook Pros?
That’s another ball of fish entirely; I suspect it’ll be quite a while before that laser can be squeezed into that form factor…