Comment Re:DRM doesn't work (Score 1) 432
You don't get it. You CAN copy all your Star Trek DVDs for your friend right now, CSS-protected or not. Stick one in your Linux or Mac computer, open a terminal, type dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso, and then wait a while, stick in a blank DVD, and write the ISO to disk using any burning application. You can probably just use Nero or some other Windows DVD copying thing to do it too. DVD copy protection does nothing to prevent copying DVD movies. Not a sausage.
The only thing it does is make it illegal (thanks to the DMCA) to crack the trivial encryption so that you can have a legal DVD playing application on Linux, and make it illegal to rip the DVD movie to your iPod. In the USA, it's "try use your bought-and-paid-for content the way you want, and get sued by the MPAA/RIAA."
Now Canada, formerly the actual land of the free, is facing new USA-style copyright legislation "reform" like the Americans have, thanks to big dollars in American media companies bringing to bear via (another bought-and-paid-for commodity), US legislators. Piss off US media companies!
The only thing it does is make it illegal (thanks to the DMCA) to crack the trivial encryption so that you can have a legal DVD playing application on Linux, and make it illegal to rip the DVD movie to your iPod. In the USA, it's "try use your bought-and-paid-for content the way you want, and get sued by the MPAA/RIAA."
Now Canada, formerly the actual land of the free, is facing new USA-style copyright legislation "reform" like the Americans have, thanks to big dollars in American media companies bringing to bear via (another bought-and-paid-for commodity), US legislators. Piss off US media companies!
