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IP: DVDCA and the Big Lie
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 17:32:15 -0500
To: cypherpunks () toad com From: Anonymous <nobody () neuropa net> Date: 3 Jan 2000 03:57:50 -0000
... The real story here, though, is that the DVDCA's central complaint is fraudulent. DVD encryption does nothing to prevent content piracy. A pirate doesn't have to know how to decode DVDs to make bit-for-bit copies of them by the thousands. And no DVD player can distinguish between a legally distributed original and a pirated bit-for-bit copy. The amount of protection content producers get from DVD is exactly zero. Why is the DVDCA lying? That's easy -- because the lie sounds a lot better than admitting that DVD is a fraud designed to line the pockets of a few selected players in the consumer-electronics industry. The DVDCA's real issue isn't protection of the market for DVD films, it's control of the market for DVD *players*.
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