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Consumer Electronics, Hollywood Work Against 'Video Napster'

Posted by michael on from the they-control-the-horizontal dept.

cadfael writes: "The EETimes reports that "a new working group within the existing Copyright Protection Technology Working Group (CPTWG) will review a technical method for flagging video content that is not authorized for Internet transmission. ... The group was formed at the suggestion of Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), in a letter sent roughly two weeks ago to Jack Valente, head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)." Does this make sense in the light of this article?"

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  1. Sometimes I Wonder... by banadushi_ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You know its stories like this that really make me wonder what kind of morons are running the show over there.

    They can do all they want, rally behind a format, develop a new one, encrypt things what ever. It doesn't matter.

    Lets asume for a sec that DeCSS doen't exist and there is no way to play a DVD on linux box. Ok if I wanted to copy a DVD to send to someone what would I have to do. I would hook up my DVD player to my TV Tuner card and capture the stream. Duh!

    These dude are never going to be able to copy protect anything because to do so would make the product so dificult and inconvient to use that the average consumer wouldn't buy or use it.

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    "We think the best thing is to develop something along the lines of the Copyright Scrambling System" Fritz Attaway, general counsel for the MPAA, on howto protect video form being copied.

  2. Re:Predictions by cosmosis · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It only ONE to pirate the file and VOILA!!- everyone in the world who wants a copy can get it!

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    www.enthea.org