Company tries to make DVD Copying Hard...

[Dyne]

I can only see the revenue from this as minimal. My impression is that the people who do download movies are probably the same crowd that rents movies and wouldn't buy movies anyways.

Just another company that wants to profit on royalties.

And speaking of which, this is mid-late in the DVD generation. People should realize that BluRay and HD-DVD formats will have next-to-no piracy when they get released. But I don't see any companies putting all their eggs into the next gen basket right away.

I say, put the eggs in the basket instead of wasting your money on yet another piracy protection program, unless it's 100% teenager-proof. This 97 is a pretty number on paper to PR people, but movies will still get ripped and widespread. The wide-spreading may just take a little longer, but with the way fileshare keeps growing, I doubt it.

[Blackmane]

This will stop non-hackers who just want to have a movie for free and don't have any knowledge in that area, but beyond that....

Pshh, I love when companies try to claim that their software or technology is "virtually unbreakable" because there is always somebody waiting to prove them wrong.

[KillerGremlin]

If you want proof this doesn't work, just look at the music industry. I mean, the Velvet Revolver CD installed software onto your computer so that when you ripped it the sound would be distorted. I did 2 trials. I stopped the autorun, the software never installed, and I ripped the hell out of it. I then let it autorun, the software secretly installed in the background, and I still ripped the hell out of it. Not only is my ripping software uber, but these attempts are futile at best.

[GameMaster]

Trying to stop hackers is a lost battle from the start. There's always a way to bypass something. Trying to stop hackers just wastes money. We are a group of individuals who simply cannot be stopped and will not stop until our demands our met.

Apple's DVD player software doesn't allow people to take screenshots when a movie is playing. So I just went to VersionTracker and found a third party piece of software that does allow screenshots. It's great.

I need to point out that when the companies try to restrict people from copying, it just gives the hackers more motivation to solve the puzzles and eventually bypass the security measures.

[dropCGCF]

I think if companies were smart, they would sell movies on uncopyable-USB drives.

[KillerGremlin]

Ha. 256mbs of USB space is expensive as hell. I don't want to drop 60 dollars on a movie.

[MuGen]

There will always be a way to break through any type of protection. Encryption of files was invented back in the late 80's and people still get their Credit Card's stolen off of big secure socketed websites.

Hacker's find ways and eventually make it known to all, in what would appear to be a "program" they wrote for the non=hax0r commune.

Besides, you should be able to save a CD to your computer if you have the REAL CD with an encrypted authentication. They shouldn't restrict real buyers from ripping the CD, if they don't want to have the CD everytime they wanna hear the music.

And DVD's? Easy to bypass protected DVD's on a Mac. You don't RIP the DVD as a DVD. On a Mac you copy the disk itself as a Disk Image and not a DVD Master. Once you have that copied... you double click on it and it Mounts like a DVD but it's NOT a DVD copy, it's just an image of a disk.

But anyway.... eventually something will be made by an l337 hax0r to bypass these securities.

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by Dyne

And speaking of which, this is mid-late in the DVD generation. People should realize that BluRay and HD-DVD formats will have next-to-no piracy when they get released. But I don't see any companies putting all their eggs into the next gen basket right away.

That's exactly what I was thinking as I was reading the article. This is great, it should be out right about the time I invest in HD-DVD.