[TechJunkYard]

The [DVDCCA] group licenses the encryption technology to makers of DVD players... said it will expand that licensing to digitally distributed movies... and is cooperating with disc makers to create CSS-compatible blank DVDs.

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?

[Still Thinking]

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?