Posted by David Kendall on 03/30/07 21:04

Going off topic a bit here - can anyone answer my original query please ?

"Colin Wilson" <removeeverythingbutnewsgroup@phoenixbbsZEROSPAM.co.uk> wrote
in message news:MPG.2075e6b41f643bc4989ebd@news.individual.net...
>> > I wonder if anyone can clarify whether DRM protection was written into
>> > the DVD standard - if not, perhaps we should be able to return the DVDs
>> > as "not DVDs" like we can with DRM infected "discs sold as CDs"
>> Remind me why you object to this - is it because it prevents your copying
>> it?
>
> No - if the use of new "novel" protection systems on discs breaks or
> renders old hardware unusable - and if the old hardware conformed to the
> DVD standards and the disc doesn't, it shouldn't be sold as a DVD disc.
>
> If this is the case, the disc should be replaced with one that conforms
> to the DVD standards - as was the case with the DRM infested CDs that
> got Sony banned from the US military 18 months ago for installing
> rootkits.
>
> If I wanted to copy something from Sony that included DRM like that to
> enable me to play it on my other hardware, i'd simply pass it through
> RipIt4Me.
>
> If I was *really* desperate to watch whatever the last one was called -
> which i'm not (although I was interested about the participation of
> Zanshin Studios, who I first came across on YouTube), i'd start here:
>
> <http://movies.belive.ws/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1
> &Itemid=2>

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