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Originally Posted by HarryT
So what would you suggest as an alternative? That film studios hand out free tools to copy DRM-protected DVDs and BDs?
Seems to me that film studios are "damned if they do, and damned if they don't". Isn't it a good thing that they are offering a digital transfer service? You don't really expect that service to be free, do you?
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I expect to get something worthwhile for the service, if I'm paying for it.
As an alternative, how about a user registery? I have a disk, I log on to their web site, register, and they download a tool. The tool decrypts and watermarks my disk to a clear DVD file set. (It might even offer some of the lower quality video formats.)
They are required to maintain the registry for the length of the copyright. If they stop maintianing the registry, their works go P.D.
I now have legal proof that I am a legitimate registered user of the DVD/BD, I can copy it to any device I want, make as many back-ups as I want, and they have a way (the watermark) to show where a copy came from, if it is stolen or pirated. I keep my disk as hard copy back-up. Border search under ACTA? No problem. Dial in and check.
Privacy invasion? No bigger than owning real property, you have to register that, in most jurisdictions. Plus it solves the problem of inheretance. Johnny get the Bogarts, Jenny get the Katherine Hepburns...
But this requires respecting the customer. We're talking Hollywood.....