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Movie Studios Approve New Copy Protection System to Allow Burning |
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The issue of being able to copy protected DVD’s by burning them has been a heated battle between consumers and manufacturers. On one side you have consumers who purchase these DVD’s and want to make backups to protect their investment. Many of them choose to make copies so that they can take them with them on road trips or even to their office. They also don’t want to have to replace the original DVD should it get damaged or lost.
On the other hand you have the manufacturer of such DVD’s who have been losing millions of dollars each year because many consumers found copying these DVD’s and reselling them to others at a price less than what they would pay for an original is very profitable and almost effortless.
To prevent it from taking place so much they decided to add difficult codes and encryptions to the DVD’s on the market. This in turn upset those consumers who wanted to legitimately pay for their DVD and then copy it for their own benefit. As a result many consumers have boycotted purchasing DVD’s altogether. To find a happy medium that both the consumer and the manufacturer can live with, movie studios have approved a new copy protection system that does allow them to be burned in January of 2007.
The solution includes adding a digital lock to any DVD’s that are burned on a computer as well as those that are purchased over the internet and downloaded to view on your computer. When the DVD is accessed it comes with a key to unlock the digital lock on it. Movie studios are monitoring the success of the digital lock as well as trying out various other ideas. This includes pushing the government to offer stricter penalties for those who violate the use of copy protected DVD’s. These penalties can include criminal charges, a hefty fine, and even jail time.
One drawback of the digital lock system is that many consumers are finding that they have to purchase new DVD burning software in order to unlock the codes and copy their DVD’s. This software isn’t extremely expensive but it an added expense that has to be budgeted for. It is anticipated that the codes and encrypting with become even more sophisticated with the introduction of the Blu-Ray technology.
This is due to the fact that Blu-Ray was developed by music companies, movie studios, and leaders in making technological products to play them on including Sony. This collaborated effort was done to ensure that the rights of the consumers as well as the various entertainment industries are protected.
The Blu-Ray system combines Advanced Access Copy System with a software component that allows the copyright protection to be modified so that the original consumer can copy it for their own use. However, hackers everywhere are seeing these new security codes and encryptions as a challenge, and some even brag that they have successfully accessed copy protected DVD’s with such securities in place.
Yet the movie studios have another trick up their sleeves as they will be incorporating various codes and encryptions on different DVD’s to keep hackers guessing and challenged. New analogs will continually be added that are designed by Microsoft and Dell. In the end though consumers are the ones who will pay for this protection as the cost of DVD’s and Blu-Rays will rise to cover the expense that goes into protecting them from being illegally distributed as well as to recover the revenue lost because so many of them do get into circulation.
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