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Posted by JoeBloe on 12/16/06 16:43
On 16 Dec 2006 05:51:05 -0800, "freddy" <melbedewy1226@hotmail.com>
Gave us:
>I notice that while all "Hollywood" DVD's have copy protection, many
>foreign and independent DVD's do not. Which leads me to ask how much
>it costs for the manufacturer/distributor to add copy protection to
>each DVD?
Pennies per film. Making it less than a penny per disc. It is an
inherent part of the encoding process, and requires no additional
labor, therefore there is no additional cost incurred. The exception
is for MacroVision encoding, as it has licensing royalty fee
requisites. It is also not used much anymore as VCR use requires the
viewer to take a serious dive in quality, so it is not a big theft
concern anymore.
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