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   Tech Industry didn't hold back, we moved on.

   

   Herbert, Sep 20th, 2005 @ 2:24pm

   
   

   we've CD Key and all those protection for games and software Way before file sharing became a problem. Today, we still do, but it's pretty much useless. But, we've a new biz model now. Take World of Warcraft as an example. Sure there are ppl cracked the game, but what good does that do? you can't play online, and that game is all about online game play. Even when Bizard is charging an arm and a leg for the subscribion and the servers are slow and crashes, there are still Millions of players. it's time for those dumb a$$ in the music/movie industry to wake up and rethink their biz model.

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   Techno-Karma

   

   geekGirl, Sep 20th, 2005 @ 5:24pm

   
   

   Hmmm... even if you hate the DMCA, can you still use it? Here's a suggestion: all hardware and software vendors who sell media-playing products should sue MovieLabs for violation of the DMCA... after all, doesn't any DRM strategy involve reverse engineering applications and hardware to disable existing functionality?

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   Won't work - why?

   

   confused, Sep 21st, 2005 @ 6:09am

   
   

   
   I might be being a bit stupid here, but I dont understand why the same kind of DRM that works for music can't be applied to DVDs... where's the problem?

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   Re: Won't work - why?

   

   Mousky, Sep 21st, 2005 @ 6:19am

   
   

   Because the DRM for CDs can be overridden. My wife bought me the latest Foo Fighters CD and lo and behold it was "copy protected". It wouldn't play on my computer and I was unable to rip the cd. A search on Google revealed the solution: the removal of a driver that was installed when the CD was inserted into the computer.

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   Or...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 21st, 2005 @ 9:00am

   
   

   Hollywood will take a page from the Bush Administration Handbook and claim whatever the hell it wants about copy-protection technology.
   
   Not technologically feasible? What are you talking about, we have it right here.
   
   Doesn't work as advertised? Nonsense; of course it does.
   
   Copying files doesn't satisfy the legal definition of "theft?" Shut up, you lying, hell-bound pirate!

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