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Old 01-14-2008, 12:18 AM   #83
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
You are mistaken, Andy. iTunes DRM doesn't prevent this. You can burn an audio CD of any music from iTunes, including DRM-protected music. I think personally that iTunes DRM works extremely well. It really doesn't interfere with any "legitimate" use of the music.
I apologize - I do not use iTunes and was guessing based on reviews & posts. (a bad habit.)

Now for tonight's exciting installment of:
"DRM users are either ignorant (and don't know they will be screwed) or are ticked off because they have been screwed!"

A friend of mine bought a set-top VCR / DVD Burner at Sears' about a year ago, and paid around $200 for the Samsung unit. The problem is that it only plays 2/3 of his commercial DVDs. Tonight, we popped in a the first DVD of my friend's collectors edition, digitally remastered, 8(?)-volume "Planet of the Apes" boxed set. The DVD player refused to play it. It said "Unrecognized Disc."

For the ignorant (i.e., those who have not yet been screwed by DRM) DVDs are digitally encrypted with secret technology. That means that they may or may not play in a given player, depending on the revision of the CSS algorithm on the DVD and in the player.

I didn't bother with my locally purchased anime DVDs, as they are not encoded for region 1.

For the ignorant, DVDs are also encoded to only play in 1 of several regions.

The idea is to keep pirates from taking an American DVD and playing it in Australia. The result is to make it difficult or impossible for film aficionados to watch that one rare British, French, or Japanese movie that they love. Worse yet, you might play an anime DVD, changing your region encoding on your PC. Because you are only allowed 5 changes, this might be the last one. You may accidentally permanently lock your DVD player to Japanese movies only.

Pirates who are making money off this can easily afford a correct-region DVD player, or have software to change the region encoding as many times as they like. (Even linking to this software is illegal in the USA. Using it is a felony under the DMCA's "anti-circumvention" clause.)

Andy
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