Posted by Jordan on 01/11/93 11:35

Walter Traprock wrote:
> The DVD might not even be Macrovisioned! Simply hook your DVD player to
> your VCR, and see if it makes clear copies. Since it's pornography
> that's least likely to be protected anyway, and the most likely to be
> copied, you'll just have to try it and see. Macrovision itself is
> copyrighted, and producers of pornography are too cheap to pay
> Macrovision Co. for permission to set the Macrovision Flag on the DVD.
>
> By the way, it seems to me, that, Macrovision Co., is a private company
> being illegally subsidized by the government.

Time was Macrovision could be spoofed by using the A/V out on a
television. I don't know if that's still the case or not. Apparently
the video out on TVs back then didn't have a macrovision chip so the
signal would come in to the TV and go right back out again "clean".

- Jordan

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