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on Sun Mar 04, 2007 06:15 AM
from the oh-css-is-there-nothing-you-can't-do dept.
from the oh-css-is-there-nothing-you-can't-do dept.
An anonymous reader writes "According to an article from PC World, a source close to the CSS Managed Recording forum said that technology which allows movies to be downloaded and burned to blank DVDs, using the same content-protection system as commercial discs, received official approval on Thursday. 'The technology will require discs that are slightly different from the conventional DVD-Rs found in shops today. The burned discs will be compatible with the vast majority of consumer DVD players ... Despite Thursday's approval, services that allow consumers to legally download and burn movies in their own homes are unlikely to appear quickly. The DVD CCA said it will be initially restricted to professional uses. These might include kiosks in retail stores where consumers can purchase and burn discs in a controlled environment.'"
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Soon? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Soon? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.fatass.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday December 05 2002, @12:09PM)
And further.. to continue the cries downloading is the way to go (especially in the middle of this HD-format battle we're in),instead of a shiny silvery thing (complete with its case, booklet, promo materials) we're going to be satisfied with a download direct to a black box? You think that box is going to have any to get that content out of it? Especially if the RIAA/Hollywood/Insert-Your-Favorite-Boogeyman-her
I've been watching this trend with music (iTunes, etc..), I see people think it's the cat's balls for video.. and I simply don't get it. Or I'm to materialistic and prefer the tangible product in my hand compared to some stuff on a harddrive somewhere which is (imho) prone to higher levels of control or loss due to failure..
-r (or maybe it's just another sign i'm getting older..
Ohhhhh (Score:5, Funny)
What? (Score:1, Informative)
huh? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:huh? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yawn... (Score:2, Informative)
This is a lie. And if I learned something from history (and e.g. Sony advertising), then that this is a lie...
The DVD CCA said it will be initially restricted to professional uses. These might include kiosks in retail stores where consumers can purchase and burn discs in a controlled environment.
That's not professional use. It's a business model that will fail. If I learned something from history, then that this is one of the business models which fail because you don't confront paying customers with prison-vocabulary like "controlled environment".
I don't get it (Score:5, Insightful)
A DVD costs pennies to make/transport.... (Score:4, Insightful)
A DVD costs pennies to make/transport (I get plenty of them for free with magazines/etc.). Installing all the hardware/infrastructure needed for this system will cost a fortune.
Need more imagination. (Score:5, Interesting)
A good example would be a kiosk at a supermarket. You could come in, choose a movie, swipe your credit card, start the burn process, when it's done, it could set it aside until you swipe your credit card again, after you are done shopping. It could use DVD-RW and predict demand for popular movies and keep recycling disks, so that if you pick a popular movie it doesn't even have to burn it. It could do this all through the night and at 10 minutes a disk (conservative estimate) could produce 144 DVDs a day. More likely it'd be closer to double that.
Even more obvious is that it could be integrated into an online service that would let you choose movies and guarantee their availability when you go to the store. Browse online then simply pick it up when you go for groceries. Convenience and instant gratification.
CSS?? (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://stage6.divx.com/)
So why bother? It's been broken for over 7 years. Unless...
The technology will require discs that are slightly different from the conventional DVD-Rs found in shops today
Another disc format ? (Score:5, Funny)
computer store conversation
customer: hello, my son says i need some blank dvds for my holiday video
Salesman: certainly sir which would you require ?
customer: iam not sure
salesman: well is it DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-HD, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+DL, DVD-DL, DVDRW+DL, DVDRW-DL ?
customer: erm iam not sure DVDR i was told
salesman: ok lets say its DVD-R what speed would you like?
customer: ??
salesman: 1-4x, 2-8x or 4-16x
customer: ???
salesman: and would it be an Organic layer based disc or Gold archival format ?
customer: forget it i'll just have a box of VHS tapes please
Re:Another disc format ? (Score:4, Insightful)
Salesman: would you like Sony, TDK, Memorex or own brand
Customer: er, Sony
Salesman: what grade would you like? XB, XBR, XBR-E
unwanted technology (Score:1)
i think there's a general lack of awareness regarding DRM and competing technologies. it doesn't seem that this will change in the near future and just as with sony's (already almost forgotten) rootkit disaster (time really seems to heal all wounds). the public outcry will take a while to surface, because "the mob" isn't aware of it now.
Convenience for who? (Score:4, Insightful)
It just reinforces in my mind that consumers are merely obstacles between the studios and their money, and technology is merely a lubricant to ease the movement of money from us to them. Nothing else matters - in fact anything else is an obstacle.
and available for Linux? (Score:2)
(http://www.craigsteffen.net/)
Price (Score:1)
What a bargin! LOLz
Waste of money. (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't get it (Score:2, Insightful)
Anyone think... (Score:3, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Friday October 06 2006, @06:40PM)
they have not let go of their strangle hold yet (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://vftp.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday December 09 2006, @09:52PM)
You can bet those disks, which cost them a nickel to make, will cost you $7 apiece. They are not going to stop robbing us, they are just trying to make it less obvious.
Consumer? (Score:2)
(http://del.icio.us/jvz | Last Journal: Sunday December 03 2006, @12:45PM)
There are so many unwarranted uses of the word "consumer" in TFS and TFA it isn't funny.
Umm okay? (Score:1, Insightful)
Why own? (Score:3, Insightful)
Still, for those rare dvd's one does want to own, why would you want a shit burned DVD with some crap injet label instead of a slick case with insert?
Yet another example of too little too late (Score:2)
They should do something innovative instead of trying to release pointless and unwanted variants of the old sales model.
I say this is pointless because anyone with a dvd burner and a subscription to netflix or blockbuster can already do more than this 'new concept' is offering. Furthermore they can still use standard media, and it probably costs a lot less per copy.
Hmm. (Score:2)
(http://www.winsucks.com/)
Sorry bucko, Blockbuster is faster. (They made you return the video).
Good thinking (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Because teenagers and college kids working in kiosks will prevent their friends and peers from making unauthorized duplications of any film without the express written consent of the MPAA, Skywalker Studios, and George Lucas.
Almost a Good Idea.... (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Thursday August 16, @01:33PM)
A Modest Proposal
Seems to me a better way to do this would be simply to sell two kinds of DVDs in retail stores, including a new kind that gives the RIAA a fee in place of royalties in exchange for the granting of rights to download and burn any kind of copyrighted material onto that disk anywhere. This fee, of course, would be added to the cost of the DVD the consumer pays.
So those who want the RIAA to get their pound of flesh can do so and burn with a clear legal conscience, and those who prefer to pirate can buy the cheaper DVDs we are already using.
This would require the RIAA to monitor all P2P downloads so the royalties can be divided pro rata to the artists due them. But since they already seem to be monitoring DLs, it would be of no significant added cost to them.
Techological progress (Score:1)
You Can Do This Already (Score:1)
A blast from the past! (Score:2)
(http://home.comcast.net/~steve_k/thermite.jpg)
I remember Blockbuster was going to be providing burn-on-demand VHS tapes Real Soon Now, about 10 years ago... I see this having almost exactly the same chance of becoming a reality.
You call this news? (Score:1)
Re:Legal in own home? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://wakaba.c3.cx/)
The preferred argument of wife-beaters everywhere!
Re:Legal in own home? (Score:4, Insightful)
At what point does the "legal in my own home" argument fail to hold water? And if it fails to work at some point, what does that say about the entire argument?
For example, is it legal to shoot heroin in your house? How about meth? Is it legal to pass counterfeit bills to your drug dealer? Can you deprive him of liberty if he calls you on it? Is murder legal in your own home? How about arson to hide the evidence of the previous "legal" activities?
If your argument fails at some point in that chain, does it continue to work for your original "legal in my own home" actions?