On 18/05/14 03:42 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
On 05/18/2014 03:22 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 5/18/2014 2:15 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
If packaging prevents me from using a product for a purpose that I am
legally entitled to use it for then I have a right to demand that the
packaging be changed. DRM prevents not just my use on platforms that
they don't support but also to make fair use of the product.
Can you show where that is occurring now?
If not, your argument is without merit.
The entire thing has become an "Unmarked Helicopters" issue. Besides,
far worse tricks were pulled in the 80's regarding anti-copying of
floppies. Ways were found around almost over-night. Yoho. :/ Ric
Sadly the digital restrictions are becoming worse. While the DVD CSS was
cracked as were early BluRay DRMs, the current DRMs are much harder to
circumvent.
This is due in part to the Internet and in part due to better
technology, which allows players to be updated to include new schemes
when the older ones are cracked. You couldn't do that with DVD players
because the original schemes were hard coded and not set up to be
updated. BluRay players allow the DRM schemes to be updated to play new
movies that come out using them.
The DRM schemes seem to much harder to crack as well, judging from the
number of BluRays that require a commercial environment to be playable.
Linux can play the movies only if they aren't using the latest DRM
schemes. Otherwise you need Windows, a Mac or a dedicated player.
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