Re: [Plug] DVD software

["Nicolai Rosen" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

Well first of all, an open player is not only viable, but out of the control 
of the film industry. The industry is stupid. They don't realize that it's 
only a few bucks more expensive (if at all) to buy a movie than to pirate 
it. I could care less whether or not this changes their perception or not. 
If they're not willing to produce a player, then the Open Source community 
can produce one of its own. Open Source may not be a good solution to 
everything, but for most things such as this, it's a very good solution. In 
fact it's the best solution. As for loss from pirating of VHS, that hasn't 
stopped the MPI from making obscene amounts of money off of them. Finally, 
your assertion that DVDs are theater quality is patently absurd. They are 
digital, but who cares. They're still rather expensive to pirate and doing 
so would not be very practical, especially considering you can only make 
DVD-RAM disks currently and that wouldn't even hold most movies.

> I'm not sure that an open player would be viable, given the apparent level
> of paranoia that the film industry has over copying.  The whole reason for
> the encryption and the control over the keys is that the industry doesn't
> trust the development community, Open Source or otherwise, enough to make
> the decryption keys publicly available.  And I have to say, the response,
> in general, to this issue doesn't necessarily help change their
> perception.
>
> I think a more productive route would be to try to convince an existing
> DVD software/hardware licensee that there's a viable market for a DVD
> player on the Linux platform.  Unfortunately, the Linux community has an
> image that it needs to be Open Source or they're not interested.  Open
> Source is NOT a suitable solution for everything.  Think of how much loss
> the movie industry has suffered because VHS tapes are eminently
> bootleggable.  Now, you want them to agree to make a format that's not
> only theatre quality, but digital (and therefore doesn't lose quality on
> copying) and has additional features?  If this is the case, I think the
> Linux community is seriously deluding itself and doesn't have a real
> future.
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