IP: OK people, how do they do this (if they do) DVDCA and the Big Lie

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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
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>
> > ----------
> > 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 Lie
> >
> >
> > > To: 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