DRM DVDs – in kiosks
p2pnet.net News:- Hollywood’s DVD CCA, in charge of CSS and other forms of DRM, is trying to undo some of the damage it’s done.
CSS is a kind of CC mechanism, CC being Consumer Control. And DRM is, of course, Digital Restrictions Management. But No, neither CSS nor DRM are being phased out.
Rather, "Commercial vendors and individual consumers can now look forward to being able to legally create certain types of protected DVDs, the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) announced today," states a DVD CCA fluff release.
"Under rule changes now in the works, commercial vendors could create protected DVDs on kiosks and in small custom runs. Individual consumers could legally record a variety of selected content. Both would require special blank DVD discs that will use the Content Scramble System (CSS) for encryption and will be compatible with the millions of existing DVD players in the marketplace today."
Enter commercial kiosks, "where consumers could buy entertainment, custom-burned on the special discs" to allow, "unusual, historical or special content that is now unavailable on DVD because existing demand does not warrant the mass reproduction today’s market requires".
So what’s it all about, Alfie?
The movie industry, "may be taking a page from their musical cousins, who have seen digital sales grow spectacularly in recent years, while CD sales remain flat," believes Ars Technica. "Most of this growth comes from the iTunes Music Store, which offered consumers the ability to burn music tracks to an unlimited number of CDs.
"Ironically, this was all possible because of the lack of copy protection on CDs in the first place. Given the much more stringent copy protection schemes being delivered with the new Blu-ray and HD DVD players and movies, it appears the movie industry still has some learning to do."
Also See:
DVD CCA – DVD CCA to Enable Retailers and Later, Consumers to Create Protected DVDs Compatible with Existing DVD Players, August 3, 2006
Ars Technica – DVD Copy Control Association loosens restrictions… slightly, August 10, 2006
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September 6th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
The problem with DRM is that I can’t make copies of my DVD and put them on my iPod video. I bought the iPod video a while back this year in the winter, and are planning to buy an updated iPod next year (Boy, iPods may be popular, but they sure do go obsolete so quickly, as Apple may introduce a 120-gigabyte iPod with improved video resolution.
I understand about the content scrambling system designed to prevent mass production piracy and casual (copy for a friend). But the problem is that I can’t rip DVDs without circumventing the copy protection scheme for backups and importing the movie or a few episodes of Star Trek, or other protected DVD content onto my iPod.
Hopefully, Apple may contact the Motion Picture Association of America to include software that securely copies the movie right onto my iPod, so that I can watch Star Wars, a few episodes of Star Trek, or even Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or perhaps Wallice and Grombit while on the go (at a park or in a plane), without the hassle of carrying several DVDs with me. Hopefully, the Blu-ray/HD-DVD’s Managed Copy feature will solve that, and allow me make copies of the movies that I lawfully purchased for portability, home streaming, and backup use.