MetaFilter posts tagged with dvd and copyprotection

For whom these vile shackles, These long-prepared irons?

seanyboy — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:08:57 -0800

Vive la Revolution. Are DVD Copy Protection technologies now illegal in France? (via techdirt).

Vetinari — Thu, 11 Jul 2002 05:44:34 -0800

Homer Simpson: Hack your DVD player. It seems in countries in which the DVD Copy Control Authority doesn't own the government, even the giants of corpmedia don't like the "protection" features the platform foists on consumers. On Fox's Simpsons UK DVD release FAQ page, Homer himself says "I have no idea whatsoever what regional coding means. But it is essential that you buy a multi-regional player. Do it now." Is the DVD region-coding system really only relevant in the United States?

mathowie — Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:32:30 -0800

Harry Potter released unprotected. In a move that makes me say both "Wha?" and "Kickass!", Warner Bros chose to release the Harry Potter DVD and VHS home versions sans the Macrovision copy protection. It could stand to be quite an experiment, or quite a blunder on their part.

donkeysuck — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:53:53 -0800

Who says DeCSS litigation is dead? Norwegian court indicts the fellow who cracked DVD protection.

mathowie — Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:15:58 -0800

So the DVD copy protection was cracked, and it's interesting to hear the comments from the industry. The DVD Forum's release makes the hackers sound awful. The DVD folks feel like they've been ripped off. Can't these motion picture and DVD industry folks see this as a good thing? A couple hackers decrypted what was supposed to be a secure format and they're horrified? They should be horrified at the idiots that created the weak 'protection' in the first place. These hackers just did the industry a great service. They found a gaping security hole before good recordable DVDs ever came out! I'm surprised hackers are vilified instead of being offered lucrative positions as security experts.