Posted on 08/11/2006 6:07:44 AM PDT by Panerai
The DVD Copy Control Association is soon expected to finalize changes that could allow iTunes customers to burn video downloads onto DVDs. The forthcoming technical and policy changes involve the association's proprietary technology called the "Content Scramble System," or CSS. The group licenses the encryption technology to makers of DVD players and other electronics firms, applying it to movies on DVDs to restrict illegal copying, according to a report from the Associated Press. The association said it will expand that licensing to digitally distributed movies on demand or a la carte in the near future, and is cooperating with disc makers to create CSS-compatible blank DVDs.
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Or they could keep CSS optional for locally-burned DVDs, as it is now.
Isn't this akin to making CSS-compatible DVD blanks a little more expensive than just plain ol' DVD blanks, with a few cents from every blank disc going to MPAA (as RIAA is doing with the "Audio CD" deal)?
Doesn't RIAA/MPAA get a piece of this action already?
Yeah, I never understood how they could get a royalty based on the idea that people would burn CD's of content in which they had an interest, then they sue people anyway for doing it, and the courts take them seriously!!! WTF?
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