Re: [PLUG] An interesting story with good points...

["Thomas E. Keiser" <tek@teklogic1.com>]

Michael:

    I agree that the "attitude" is a sure loser, and that many (young)
Linuxers have little respect for private property, intellectual or otherwise.
But at the moment, in this case, it is my understanding that any DVD blanks
available are (1) expensive; and (2) come with the country code/encryption
tracks already burned to zeroes. This means you can use them for storage, but
not to dupe a movie. OTOH, and I may have this wrong, the data stream
emanating from a legit DVD contains everything you would need to make a copy,
without resort to DeCSS. The problem would be playback, as the encryption
would be missing, but presumably that could be overcome by playing it back as
raw data on a DVD-RAM, rather than as a movie on a DVD player. In either
case, there's substantial opinion that the movie industry just wants to have
us all buy, but be unable to use, this technology for our own purposes. This
means, if you want to create your own DVD movie, advertising your products
for instance, then you have to pay the hollywood types to encrypt, produce
and burn your disks. I'm not sure how the corporate types will respond to
this, once all the facts have been put into evidence at the trial.

Regards,

Tom

"Michael W. Ryan" wrote:

> You know, I'm getting tired of the argument "it's too impractical to copy
> DVDs".  The same thing was said about about CDs, and now look.  I can't
> believe people are using this as an argument.
>
> And to put a Linux spin on this:  I think this lawsuit, win or lose, is
> damaging to Linux and Open Source.  The attitude taken by the defendents
> does nothing to engender any kind of goodwill in the business community.
> Oh, and before anyone says that Linux doesn't need them, look at your
> history of the microcomputer -- it didn't become widely accepted until it
> became a viable business platform.
>
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