RE: Macrovision Shares Fall on RipGuard Review

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

They should just give up and get rid of bloody copy protection, Sony's
learning this the hardway.  lower the price of a new DVD to $10 - $13 so
there is no longer any incentive to pirate a movie.  While I'm on it, they
might as well release the DVD's at the same time the movie is in the
theaters too.  that would further cut down on piracy, but might cut into
theater sales a bit but probably not as much as they think.... guys need
somewhere to bring their sweetheart on a date :-)  They could increase
theater sales if they lowered the price a bit and lowered the price a *lot*
on popcorn/soda-pop/candy.  If I can go into the local candy store and buy 1
box of gummy bears for $1.00, there is zero need for the theaters to charge
$6.00 for the same exact package of gummi bears when we all know they
actually paid 50 cents for the same box....  it's like a $50 deal to take a
family of 4 to the movies now-a-days, and that's for matinee pricing!
 
 
phew sorry about the rant... back to our regularly scheduled discussions :-)
 
 Mike B
 
Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I 
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 
email:  Blanchard_Michael () EMC COM 
 

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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Dude VanWinkle
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:03 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Macrovision Shares Fall on RipGuard Review


Richard Sed:


 Munster said he was able to download a free DVD ripper that had been
updated just three days after the "Madagascar" release, 



The key question that studios will be asking themselves is: how far is the
'average joe' willing to go to copy a movie."



I think downloading an application is not _too_ far beyond the "average joe"
;)

Wow, shares go down based on how easily the sofware is circumvented: cya
Symantec ;-)

-JP

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