New DVD chips 'to kill illegal copying'
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I am pretty sure that no sooner do these "chips" come to the market that there is someone out there creating a program to get around the "chip".Koss007 said:but then here r always smarter brains out there who would come up with a work around
A couple things to consider:
1) Who would police this?
2) Would the government actually allow the Movie industry to keep, in essence, wire taps on people through thier DVD's & DVD players?
The movie industry, IMO, is the cause to all this pirating. Their greed is what made it such a big biz. That is where they should be looking first if they want to fix the problem. Geez, to take a family of four out to the movies could run you over a $100. For an average household earning an average income, that can get expensive & un-affordable.
To answer your first question, the copyright law will police this. Any circumvention of copy protection is illegal.motorlube2001 said:
For your 2nd question, the answer is yes. Something similar have been done in 1998 with a variant of DVD format called DIVX (not to be confused with DiVX codec) where a DIVX player will literally call the DIVX headquarter so you can watch a movie and automatically charging your credit card everytime you want to watch a DIVX movie. Almost like pay per view but you HAVE to buy the disc beforehand (and will get a 48 hour window to watch it).
As far as a family of 4 spending $100 for a movie. Is it really that expensive? The last time I check (and it's been a while) the ticket price was $10 per person. So it's $40 for a family of 4... or in my case, I just wait for the DVD (now HD-DVD) to be released and watch it in the comfort of my home theatre.
Cobster, from the RFID technology demo that I attended, it's not going to be that easy to track one RFID chip, especially if it's inside your car or house.
These content manufacturers and their copy protection is plain stupid. The cause of piracy is too high of a price and too low of a re-watchable value of the movie (or too little good song on a CD).
IIRC the development and implementation of Macrovision, ARCCOS, CSS, anti-theft security tag (one tag for 2 versions of security systems) cost about $2 per DVD. If they use that money to lower the price of DVD instead, we'll be seeing more sales jump (don't forget that $2 cost at the manufacturing level means about $4 jump at the retail level, plus taxes, which makes a price difference of almost $5). Imagine those bargain basement movies that are selling for $12 can be had for $8. Who's going to pirate anymore? (The cost of a home-pirated DVD is the cost of rental, electricity, time to exctract and recompress/reauthor, blank media, DVD case, ink, photo paper to print the artwork, is approximately $8 if not more)
IIRC the development and implementation of Macrovision, ARCCOS, CSS, anti-theft security tag (one tag for 2 versions of security systems) cost about $2 per DVD. If they use that money to lower the price of DVD instead, we'll be seeing more sales jump (don't forget that $2 cost at the manufacturing level means about $4 jump at the retail level, plus taxes, which makes a price difference of almost $5). Imagine those bargain basement movies that are selling for $12 can be had for $8. Who's going to pirate anymore? (The cost of a home-pirated DVD is the cost of rental, electricity, time to exctract and recompress/reauthor, blank media, DVD case, ink, photo paper to print the artwork, is approximately $8 if not more)
