What the hell, we buy DVDs with CSS, this is the initial problem, pirates do not mind if it has or not CSS in their DVD, HDV or anything, the pirates unblock almost everything, and the industry put the cost to the honest consumer like if they will solve the problem, but in fact, what happens is that the honest consumer is being bothered more and more. If I have a normal comercial bought DVD, why I cannot play in Linux ? It means the DVD has a defective design, not made to function as intended, and please do not compare movies to car pieces. ( justifying the fit on measures ). Media is something really different. If the industry abandon the CSS and all of the crap, the lower costs will atract more people to the legal side of the wall.
Recently I saw the Blu Ray disc having an increase in revenue, what matters for the consumers ?
Only 5 U$ of difference. ( altough 5 dollar is 5 dollars ).
But is the fact that the piracy is caused by the higher margin of profit that they are having.
In certain countries, the law of the country means that the media has to function as it's intended to, in any device capable of play them.
It means show the film and don't bother.
Do you know what they are doing here in Brazil ?
Leaving DCSS and Macrovision!
It means 4U$ less for the consumer, what happens ?
13% less piracy of the same DVD in the initial month.
People buy again the original DVD.
Another success is the creation of two distinct products, ( they put the same thing onto the CDs and the quality is the same, no crap in the second one ), offered to people, the two of them is original, but one is made of a Normal CD and the other is a burned CD, the burned CD only haves the music and is 50% cheaper than the other, paying taxes normally, in two months, the pirates does not have the CD anymore to sell, because the public search the stores for the original burned CD. And, more interestingly, the premium CD has an increase of 13% in search.
But, the differences is only outside, the inside is the same.
The industry can lower the cost at any moment, but instead of this , they preferred the war against users, now, users are getting to creative commons, the system found it's own best way alone, and they get desperate blaming the computer industry for their problems.
The industry offered a useless solution and more cost is absorbed by the population. More piracy, and a bad chain goes well.
Finally, Microsoft Vista... More cost, more problems. The same problems.
CSS offered in Ubuntu is totally legal for certain countries. It is illegal in USA, but not Illegal for the entire world, they payed for the DVDs, not for the CSS. CSS is Useless, but who bought a DVD already payed for it. CSS is provided to add more costs, not to stop piracy. The same for HDMI and HDCP, doesn't stop piracy, but add more costs.
The honest consumer continues paying for the sins of the industry.
If I pay for a DVD, it's for a DVD, not for CSS, CSS don't do anything for me, the film working well do. CSS is not for my protection, not for play the DVD ( In fact, only add a bloat to the film ), but it is there. What is the function of CSS for me and for you if it's not really needed for play the DVD ?
CSS is Legal for Linux, we already payed CSS Bloat in the DVD, do they still want more for what ? We never tell them to put CSS onto the DVDs, so why we must have to pay for it ?
That's the new question that we have to ask them, they judged us pirates before we buy their DVDs, and they condemned us with no asking before and we already payed for a bloat.
I still guess the simple solution is to have a single box of windows to convert things that are illegal to legal formats for linux distros, or a friend that can convert them for you. There is so much box of windows out there, it will be very simple.
MP3 -> Wave -> Ogg
CSSed MPG -> AVI -> Theora
QT -> AVI -> Theora
Good bye problems. Course, never redistribute it or sell, your right is only to have a backup of the film for the purpose of show it in your home, not make money with it.
If you use it in your residence only for that purpose, no problem at all.
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