[IP] more on Not exactly responsive to consumer demand ...

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Date: September 23, 2006 12:44:47 AM GMT+02:00
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Not exactly responsive to consumer demand ...
Reply-To: dewayne@warpspeed.com

[Note:  This comment comes from reader Thomas Leavitt.  DLH]

From: Thomas Leavitt <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>
Date: September 22, 2006 11:10:19 AM PDT
To: dewayne@warpspeed.com
Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] Not exactly responsive to consumer demand ...

..... why these companies continue to persist with DRM efforts, in the
face of massive evidence that they are fundamentally futile (c.f. the
recent report that "hackers" have managed to bypass Blu-ray and HD-DVD
DRM by the insanely simple brute force technique of scripted
"PrintScreen" keypresses), is beyond me... if a human eye can see it
and the human ear can hear it, the item in question can be pirated.
That's pretty fundamental.

Or has the fact escaped these folks that most of the "pirated" DVD
movies sold in East Asia and many of those distributed online, are
from video cameras snuck into movie theatres? People *pay* for what,
by all reports, is often lousy quality video.

Really, what is to prevent me from sticking a video camera in front of
a television and simply making a similar recording, and then
digitizing the result and putting it up on the blacknet? Sure, the
quality may be less than perfect, but in all likelihood, it is going
to be way better than VHS at this point... and look how long people
put up with that! ... and I'm sure professionals will have even better
techniques.

So what are they accomplishing here? I'm baffled.

Thomas

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