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IP: OK people, how do they do this (if they do) DVDCA and the Big Lie
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 17:47:31 -0500
Only way I can see is if dvd and writeable dvd have different pre "burnt" designations ps copy me for IP
From: "Gillmor, Dan" <DGillmor () sjmercury com> To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu> Dave, the lead lawyer for the DVDCA told me flatly this is untrue. He said if you make a copy of a DVD to another DVD disk, the second disk would not play in a DVD player. I don't understand how this can be so, as it's just a copying of binary files, but he was emphatic. Can any of your readers point me to an industry source that is specific on which is the case? Dan Gillmor, Tech Columnist San Jose Mercury News 750 Ridder Park Dr. San Jose, CA 95190 Voice: +1-408-920-5016 Fax: +1-408-920-5917 mailto:dgillmor () sjmercury com http://weblog.mercurycenter.com/ejournal---------- From: Dave Farber[SMTP:farber () cis upenn edu] Reply To: farber () cis upenn edu Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 2:32 PM To: ip-sub-1 () majordomo pobox com Subject: IP: DVDCA and the Big LieTo: cypherpunks () toad com From: Anonymous <nobody () neuropa net> Date: 3 Jan 2000 03:57:50 -0000... The real story here, though, is that the DVDCA's central complaint is fraudulent. DVD encryption does nothing to prevent content piracy. A pirate doesn't have to know how to decode DVDs to make bit-for-bit copies of them by the thousands. And no DVD player can distinguish between a legally distributed original and a pirated bit-for-bit copy. The amount of protection content producers get from DVD is exactly zero. Why is the DVDCA lying? That's easy -- because the lie sounds a lot better than admitting that DVD is a fraud designed to line the pockets of a few selected players in the consumer-electronics industry. The DVDCA's real issue isn't protection of the market for DVD films, it's control of the market for DVD *players*.http://lwn.net/daily/esr-dvd.html
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