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When will the movie industry (and music) give up and just let us do what we want with our own property?

is it not?

maybe i'm just sick and twisted... but reading that makes me laugh :)

Being just a number you could guess it with a blink of an eye

What are companies like the MPAA thinking? They are alienating their customers with insane restrictions, requirements, etc. Why should we rush out and buy overpriced HDTV's then buy an expensive HDDVD player and buy expensive HDDVD movies, then subscribe to a VERY overpriced cable/satellite HD package? I would expect there to be some serious incentives for moving to this new format, all I see are greedy companies making it complicated, expensive and annoying to buy these products.

What I find hilarious is that by sending out cease and desist letters to all these sites, they are responsible for the spread of these keys all over the web. Maybe they should instead stop spending millions on the letters and copyright protection and instead concentrate on making the disks affordable and usable in a variety of devices like consumers want.

"...defeating the code is a matter of time"

and use those money for compensation and lower the price tag so people would actually buy the movies.

Then again, so is a credit card number. I doubt anyone wants theirs on the front page of Digg. Get over this phony first amendment crap; this "simple number lol" was supposed to be a way for these people to stop losing lots and lots of money to pirates. If you don't like capitalism, move. If people would stop stealing crap there'd be no DRM in the first place.

DRM is wrong because it interferes with fair use and does not prevent piracy. Sophisticated pirates are never more than half a step behind the DRM folks, and that's never going to change.

omfg you guys are retarded its not jsut a number its a key. it allows you to copy anything you want. not just a number. again you guys are retarded

In the end this is data, data that must be decoded and used commonly. Whatever new method of locking content they find, we can reverse engineer it in a day or two. You can make the process illegal, but you can't really make it too hard either.

DRM just damages the value of the product and promotes piracy. It makes it harder for legitimate users and more fun for us hackers. If any of these companies want to keep their customers, they should stop wasting money on DRM schemes and focus on promoting usability.

For example, I personally would never get a pirated copy of half-life. They have an easy and convenient method of getting the game and a system that puts its trust in the user. I installed using my friend's copy of the game, the steam system came right up and let me set up an account no-problem. Now that I have that account, I can use it to get half-life on any computer, anywhere, as long as the company exists. Music and movies should be set up this way, none of this "pay for every copy on every machine you use the data on" crap. IMO all data sales should use a steam-like system.

DRM hasn't been stopping anybody from illegally copying media. They shouldn't even care. If the the studios offered more flexibility in their mediums they wouldn't stimulate the demand for pirated goods. There will also be people making copies for a friend or for somebody else. Who cares. They should only focus on those who distribute content illegally, not trying to prevent people from making copies.

Back, about a century ago, there was a group of people who felt that alcohol was destroying the fabric of life in America. So, they went ahead and passed a constitutional amendment banning the production and consumption of alcohol in the US.

As a result, people went out of their way to get drunk out of their minds. It's been said that MORE people drank MORE booze during prohibition than at any other time before or since. It was a rousing and UTTER FAILURE. So much so, the states ratified another amendment repealing Prohibition.

Oddly enough, at or about the same time, the government began cracking down on other drugs - cocaine, heroine, LSD, marijuana, etc... The so-called "War on Drugs" has been, for the most part, a dismal failure. All of those illicit drugs and a few other legit pharmaceuticals are still popularly used as recreational drugs.

Now you might be asking WTF does this have to do with the RIAA/MPAA? It's simple. It's the same sort of heavy handed, mistaken view that tries to force people into someone's idea of a "perfect" little universe. The more draconian the restrictions put on people to comply, the more likely those people will tell the "powers that be" to go pound sand AND will gleefully proceed to break the law. (cont)

DRM, like copy protection on software back in the 80's and early 90's, is doomed to fail - just as miserably as Prohibition and the War on Drugs.

30 or so years ago, you could take your LP's and with the right gear, you could make a cassette copy of the music on that album and take it with you. 25 years ago, you could take a CD and do the same. And NO ONE gave a rat's hind end if you did. If anything, the labels and bands were happy - more people got turned onto a new group that way. Fast forward to about 10 years ago, and suddenly the RIAA started freaking out about it all. Why? There was a new format - one that couldn't easily be controlled. It had no physical substance. It could be copied - verbatim, without any loss in quality - in a short amount of time. Thus, the MP3 became an instant hit.

On the video side of the coin, in the early 70's, the VCR was invented and the movie studios soiled their drawers. People could record and timeshift (tho it wasn't called timeshifing back then) TV shows and movies. Why... They'd go broke! And yet, after some careful reconsideration, they found out they could actually make a profit - by distributing their movies on tape.

Fast-forward to the mid 90's and the invention of the DVD. This time, the studios went out of their way to prevent piracy by encrypting their disks. That lasted all of oh... 10 minutes before someone cracked CSS and that gave rise to a whole plethora of cracking applications - most of which, by now, have been removed from the market.

One very important point about the DeCSS app and why it was created. The guy who created it did so because he couldn't play DVDs on his computer. Why? Because Linux (at the time) didn't have a DVD player that could decode movie discs and play them - like comparable Mac and Windows computers.
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Make NO mistake about it. This isn't about making a profit. The studios (both record and movie) are not going broke (yet!). They're still making profits. This isn't about capitalism either. This is purely about CONTROL. Ideally, the RIAA and MPAA would like to be paid EACH and EVERY time you listen to a song or watch a TV show or movie. The technology required to make this sort of thing a reality is close to, if not already available. They just have to make sure the population is properly conditioned to accept this sort of thing.

Unfortunately, the more they push, the more likely it will be that people will show up at their front gates with pitchforks, torches and other sharp implements to bring an end to this nonsense once and for all.

How many time do I have to buy the same movie, song, software bla bla over and over to fit the times. I mean rent.

Thomas

so they've created this giant wasteful bureaucracy that's so evil, people no longer feel sorry for pirating :)

not only that, but all this attention to the action of piracy is the kind of thing that leads people to start doing it in the first place.

now every pirate is peter fucking pan :)

they're shooting themselves in the feet.

If rent it, subscribe to it or buy it, I have put money back into the industry.
The content has been paid for and is mine for personal use so it’s just to damn bad for the MPAA RIAA, Gates, Jobs and all the rest of the control freaks. Thank you hackers, where would we be with out you?
What is the big deal anyway when the content is broadcast you can record it off air thanks to the grand daddy of “piracy” AKA Sony, can anyone say Betamax.

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"If people would stop stealing crap there'd be no DRM in the first place."
A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

So tell me, how does disabling the fast-forward button during ads prevent piracy? DRM isn't designed to stop piracy, that's just what they say so people will accept it. DRM is designed to control you and your media to wring out every last cent you have.

The technology has caused a shift in the dynamics of the media industry. Instead of reforming to take advantage, they are trying to prevent the revolution from occurring. They will learn to go with it or be crushed by someone who does.

‘It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.’ -- Charles Darwin

Can't the movies be copied with all encryption removed. So they can be played or stored in any computer without keys at all. Making it so the industry can do nothing to prevent copying or playing.

"The leaking of the HD DVD processing key isn’t a complete doomsday for the high-definition movie industry because the key only affects some players and presumably the movie companies could push updates that would prevent copied movies from playing."

I think the RIAA, the MPAA, and all the organizations in support of DRM have forgotten one very important thing about business. Without consumers to buy your product, your company is useless. All they're doing by adding more and more DRM into each new technology is alienating more of their consumer base.

I used to buy CD's occasionally, now thanks to DRM on some of them and the knowledge that any money I spend on a CD supports the RIAA I refuse to buy them. The only music I've paid for in the last two years is the new album from Bang Camaro because I was able to buy the tracks as unprotected MP3's and the money went straight to the band via paypal. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is fed up with the BS coming out of the industry lately.

Oh, and bill "If people would stop stealing crap there'd be no DRM in the first place." I doubt this since DRM is really more about greed than people stealing. Anyone who isn't a moron knows DRM does not prevent piracy, every time they release "Unbreakable" copy protection it's usually cracked within a month. As someone earlier pointed out though, DRM is effective at forcing consumers who actually buy the DVD to watch the ads and previews without skipping them. Also pretty good at forcing people to pay extra for music they bought legally online if they want to make a CD and listen to it in the car or if they want to put it on their MP3 player.

As for the argument that you hurt the artists, it does hold merit, but not as much as you think. Do some research into the music industry and you'll find that not only are the studios screwing over the consumer at the cash register. They're screwing over the artists when it comes time to pay the check.

"If you don't like capitalism, move."

Where?

How about a third-world country? You don't hear much about DRM coming from there.

That's the short end of the stick when your society is "technologically advanced." Consumers get a snazzy new product but with a bonus of the shaft from manufacturers. Deal with it, it's been happening since the industrial revolution. Like I said, if you don't like it, go somewhere where it won't affect you and live in a cave or something. "Rioting" on Digg definitely isn't going to change the minds of any executives.