Posted by Jeff Rife on 12/24/95 11:28

No One (aintnoway@blahblahblah.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> Alpha wrote:
> > http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?Microsoft%20invents%20a%20%E2%80%98one-play%20only%E2%80%99%20DVD%20to%20combat%20Hollywood%20piracy&StoryID=B7480068-F1F6-4C7B-A7A5-EEFCED0320CB&SectionID=F3B76EF0-7991-4389-B72E-D07EB5AA1CEE
> >
>
> Put movie in a Linux box, rip on first view, burn to DVD. Yeah,
> that helps.

Your idea would work phemononally well if the discs were actually DVD-Video
discs, but they aren't:

"The revolutionary product could be on the market as early as next year,
with the new DVD players needed to view them."

The discs will just be DVD-ROM discs with some way of storing movies on
them that doesn't follow the DVD-Video standard.

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