IP: DVDCA and the Big Lie

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>From: Anonymous <nobody@neuropa.net>
>Date: 3 Jan 2000 03:57:50 -0000

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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*.




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