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MPAA Countersues 321 Studios
Squash writes "321 Studios, makers of DVD X-Copy, is being Counter-sued by the MPAA. You may remember them filing suit to allow thier software to be produced and sold. Interesting point: the MPAA wants to claim all profits from sales of the software, which is now being bundled with some DVD burners."
that the MPAA was suing three-hundred and twenty one different studios?
Why not fork?
No way, I mean, how could they.
Isn't the US the country where you can legally purchase a gun but where killing people is illigal? I mean that's actually somehow (not totally) the same. You have got a tool, you use a tool...
You confuse me...
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The Motion Picture Association of America is countersuing Missouri software firm 321 Studios, alleging that the company's DVD-copying software violates anti-copying laws.
so i cant copy dvds i have authored myself? especially since this is being bundled with burners
IMO, they made a mistake with the name. DVD-X-Copy is, obviously, intended to make illegal copies. DVD-X-Backup, on the other hand, would obviously be intended to make legal, fair-use, backups.
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Bend over and let the MPAA slide a sue suit up your butt. Need lube? Then get permission to produce some software and then get sued by the MPAA... mmmmmm... rape
I believe the point of the IN SOVIET RUSSIA jokes is to reverse the process. Considering 321 Studios is being countersued by the MPAA, a better post would be:
IN SOVIET RUSSIA
You countersue the MPAA
Except that this doesn't apply either, considering people do countersue the MPAA.
If Slashdot was elected president in 2000, we wouldn't have the two problems we have today: A MPAA and more lawyers than doctors.
Anyone with any skills at all can copy DVD disks without this software.
My Ass hurts.
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If the MPAA is going after the company because it wants profits, and not because it wants to prevent the software from being available on a potential mass-market, could this mean the MPAA may be accepting the potential for movies to be burned to DVD-R? Maybe they'll let up if they can get a chunk of the profit? Probably not, but one can dream...
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I'm not a big video editing guy, but I'd like to be able to copy my DVDs. Is there any Linux program that will what DVD X-Copy does?
Remember this is the MPAA, and since you can copy a DVD faster then you can watch it it must be equivelent to 321 different studios
Easy cd copier? names aren't everything.
The article says the software asks you for a second blank DVD as most films come on dual layered discs, holding twice as much content as your average blank dvd. anyone know if its possible to buy blank dual layer dvds and a combatible burner?
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All they have done is bundle applications that are free and from what I can tell the only programing that they have done themselfs is adding a front end.
The stolen software is as follows:
Smart Ripper
DVDx
VCD Easy/CD-Maker
PowerCDR
Fair use has a lot of reasons to be in existance. The least of which was media degradation.
In the bad old days, merely playing any recorded material degraded the quality of it. A record, tape or VHS tape would eventually wear out. Thus making "copies" from a master was a necessity if you wanted to listen/view it over a long period of time. With todays digital media that is no longer the case, or much less so. Look for the "MPAA" supporters to try and use this fact to ban ALL fair use. Think revisionist history here (an mpaa lawyers will be!), fair use was needed because of the failure of that times recording technology. It (fair use) has no other reason to be in existance they will argue. It's outmoded and needs to be gotten rid of they will say. Reverse engineering, fair use, personal use will all be attacked (and are being attacked).
I find it ironic that a record company that can't even pay it's own employees/sub contractor (the artists) correctly is worried about a piece of DVD copying software. I guess if your accounting is THAT BAD then any percieved potential loss must be made up for. Thus the industry that can't even keep track of it's own sales accurately swings into action with a cadre of lawyers. Eventually musicians will seel directly to the people, and they will cut out the middle man. Eventually people will listen to music because they want to, not because they are told to. I can't wait for that day.
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As we've all read a thousand times, this is no different than the movie studio's rabid reaction to the introduction of VCR's - a product that can duplicate video media and *might* be used for piracy.
This is the fight we've been waiting for: Fair Use vs. the DMCA. Only one will be left standing.
(So I'm being a little dramatic, sue me, I realize that the DMCA has a crapload of other stuff that will remain even if parts of it are struck down.)
Since when does DMCA make it illegal to make copies in general? I believe it only applies to breaking copyright protection...? I am hoping this will be tossed quickly or am I missing something?
I need to know since I'm going to get a 8x DVD burner, but call it 50,000 .00016x burners and open up a Third World Everquest Pirate Cafe!
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if so, great
now come on dude, how could that be possible?
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MPAA actually only sued 57 studios, but a few of them were unusually big.
you should have a cup of stfu
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to point out that killing people isn't illegal in the US. Murder is. A fine distinction, I know, but an important one nonetheless.
There are those who are trying to make killing people illegal, and for the most part I applaud their efforts, but they're losing at the moment.
Nor are people the only things guns are used for killing. Many in the US still use them for killing something called "dinner."
In large areas of the US ( which is *not* like a great big Holland or NYC carried out ad infinitum)guns are often still necessary to prevent people from *becoming* dinner. An average of 14 people a year are killed by wild lions. The figures for bears are considerably higher.
People who never leave LA, NYC or Western Europe sometimes have a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea that over much of the North American continent (which actually includes Canada, believe it or not, where guns are ubiquitous but murder is not)guns still play the same day to day role that they did 400 years ago, and are just as necessary in that role.
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I did think that.
It was only while reading through the actual article that I understood it as the name of a company. How freaky!
"All your DVD are belong to us!" and, "Set us up the lawsuit!"
If the laws that you've bought and paid for don't actually work like they're supposed to, does that mean you can get your money back?
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You know, someone just asked me if there was software that would let you copy DVDs. They wanted to...(wait for it...) use a copy for the DVD player in their Honda odyssey so they could keep the orignals at home and undamaged (kids, minivans and optical discs don't play well together).
I told them there was no such software.
Now I know differently. Thanks, MPAA, I guess you do add value, after all!
Fermat's other theorem: "I have a simple proof, but I can't write it down as I fear it's a DMCA violation to discuss it"
Piracy is Communism. Private property is Capitalism. You don't want to live in a Communist state, do you?
You know what happens in communist countries? The government controls everything you do. If you try and start your own business and invent new products, the government knocks down your door and takes your computers. If you make any profits, you have to hand them over to a third party, and they label you an enemy of the state.
In communist countries, powerful entities take money from the working class and use it to line their pockets and buy influence. The government is so interwoven with corruption, almost every law passed exists simply to keep to the bureaucratic machinery running, rather than encouraging efficient innovation (which can be dangerously disruptive).
You wouldn't want to live in country like that, would you??
Easy, deny them this software. Trust me, since it isn't actually that hard the "average user" will learn how to dd a disk if they want copies and have a computer.
The MPAA doesn't get what we all know and say over and over again. Casual copying is for the most part legal. Illegal casual copying for the most part *increases* sales. If you can output it you can copy it. And here's the biggy:
People want to be able to copy.
They will stick to a format that allows it, or they will learn how to do it in the new format.
Hey MPAA guys, why don't you just find a business plan that coordinates with reality? Then we can all go back to work, ok? And remember, the customer is always right, because the customer controls the flow of money from *their* pocket to *yours.*
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I make party videos on my camcorder and then make DVDs. If I had DVD Copy thing, I wouldn't have to render it every time I try to burn it !!! Rendering takes forever :-(
This is good for us. They need to keep on slapping the DMCA in everyone's face. That way the general public will realize what a completely ridiculous law it truly is. You don't see these DMCA cases on the 6 o'clock news and that needs to change.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
so when is the plan to send all lawyers to mars happening?
tommarow? soon?
its an interesting read. they are actually enforcing fair use to some extent. it doesnt allow copying a copy (as long as its attempted with DVDXCopy), and inserts disclaimer warning screens at the start of each backup. sure teh die-hard hacker is going to copy it by a different means anyhow, but this program is tailored to joe-user that just wants a backup of his dvd and could care less about a warning screen at the start of his movie. it seems they made the program as restrictive as possible, covering the necessary fair use bases without overly-annoying the end user in the process.
This may even make the MPAA look bad should 321s lawyers bring up these facts in court.
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Trust me, since it isn't actually that hard the "average user" will learn how to dd a disk if they want copies and have a computer.
;-)
Actually, it takes *very* slightly more work than "dd". For Windows users, either DVD Dec or SmartRipper, in "file" mode, will suffice.
I proviide my content on DVD. I searched the MPAA website and I don't see where I need to apply to get my cut of the proffiits collected for every sale of DVD-copying software that MIGHT be used to copy my DVD content.
:)
If the MPAA is allowed to collect these funds, then under this theory, anyone who ever records original content on a DVD for distribution, should be allowed membership to the MPAA. If enough of us join the MPAA, we could elect board members more in tune with reality. This would be far more difficult within the RIAA, since -while anyone can join the organization- only those who recieve payments (based on radio airplay of their music) can actually vote to elect board members. They have a vary incestuous system as compared to the MPAA, but with regard to the MPAA, everyone should produce a short film, perhaps a flash animation, and distribute it on DVD, selling it on their own website or whatever, then join the MPAA. If we generate enough new membership, we should be able to install board members as we se fit.
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I think the reality is different. The "average user" will NOT learn anything. They only know things that have been around for over 5 years and are used by everybody as to force them to use it as well. This is does not even imply that I feel superior to the "average user". In fact I tried to rip a DVD and gave up after an some effort. Sure I bet I could do it, but I haven't so far...
People want to be able to copy but they will NOT learn new things to do it... Quite a few people still don't know how to operate a VCR or a microwave, damn it...
I would submit this as its own story, but it'd probably just get rejected, so I might as well interject it here while it's timely. According to this EFF press release, the film studios that the ReplayTV users have been suing for clarification of their fair use rights tried to get the EFF disqualified from providing the ReplayTV users' lawyers--claiming that the EFF's stance on copyright made them a competitor to Hollywood! Fortunately, this attempt has been rebuffed, twice.
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Unless they can provide me with a fuckin' guarantee that they will replace any DVD that I accidentally damage after I buy it, they have no right to sue 321. This is fuckin ridiculous.
:( ..) on the DVD. Stupid MPAA; violates anti-copying laws my ass.
I have numerous legit DVD's and I have to treat them like explosives since even a small scratch could render it useless. Specially game DVDs. Atleast the 321 software gives me a chance to back it up on some cheap media and store it away safely. I wouldn't mind spending 4 bucks more on a blank DVD where I have already spent 25 (80+ for come games
"Copy" is a perfectly neutral term.We can't let the MPAA dictate our language.
:)
Likewise naming backup wouldn't provide a shred of protection. It's what it does, not its name, that governs legality. (Lawyers aren't quite that stupid.)
So I can call it a kid's novelty, but if it's actually a joint, I haven't changed anything.
Hell, some people (no names :-) have been ripping DVDs to DVDR and CDR disks for ages using freely available shareware.
There are even some bloody excellent websites like VCDHelp.com and Doom9.net which explain the whole process in simple to follow steps and provide discussion forms for those who have questions or problems.
What's the MPAA going to do now? Force these sites to charge a subscription and demand that all the revenues be handed over to them?
Hey, maybe the MPAA *have* found a new business model -- let people help others make backup copies of your wares and then sue them for huge sums.
Probably sounds pretty damned good from a movie exec's perspective -- let others do all the work then just raid their wallets at your leisure.
Just a minitangent: Plastic polishes such as Novus 1-2-3 can take out superficial scratches and contamination pretty reliably.
I wish whoever broadcasts Enterprise here would get some. Theie (evidently digital) broadcasts go blocky all the time, like 4-5 times per episode. I can practically see the tech's fingerprints.
Fair use is not God-given, it's just a regular law added to the copyright statutes (before that a judicial construction). The DMCA, despite its protestations to the contrary, appears to screen out part of fair use. There is a core fair use that is First Amendment and can't be overridden, but I don't think the amendment goes to making backup copies.
So I assume a judge would say, yeah, the DMCA is badly written (there's a first) but it is clear what it proscribes and they'll just have to rewrite it rather than have me guess at the correct wording.
YMMV.
What the hell does this have to do with the DMCA, XdvdCopy, or anything eles that has to do with technology?
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Nonetheless, as your troll post disappears off the radar, perhaps people will see the light, and click on it out of interest.
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I've already been modded down for responding to a modded down offtopic post.
Go figure.
KFG
The "average user" is never going to learn what dd does or stands for (what does dd stand for, anyway?). Additionally, it is required by law (not directly, but by patent and trademark laws - violating the standard will invalidate your license to use the DVD moniker and associated patented technologies) that all DVD drives manufactured contain CSS authentication restriction. The DVD software has to authenticate to the drive with a valid secret handshake before the DVD drive will give any CSS encrypted data to the computer, and then the computer has to decrypt the encrypted data.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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It was described as a law that makes it illegal to make mp3s of your own CDs. Since it is an EU directive, I doubt any of the member countries have much choice but to add some law of this kind.
It is a standard (although deprecated) *nix tool that comes with virtually every Linux distro, similar to DOSes xcopy, except that since *nix treats all data as a stream it makes a bit for bit duplicate of the source. In the case of a DVD this means that the resulting disk is an *exact* duplicate of the original. It violates no trademark or patent law ( these only apply if you *distribute* the disk or a playback device, and as you say, violation in regards to the disk itself only effects your right to call it a DVD(tm)).
This isn't a cracking tool. *It leaves the CSS intact.* It's a *duplication* tool. The copy cannot be played on any device that could not play the source disk. It complies in every respect with the standard. Thus it's a perfectly valid copy tool that does not even violate the DMCA, since no attempt has even been made to circuvent the copy protection.
The very idea that someone might simply copy the copy protection appears to have been an idea totally foreign to the mindset of the media types who believe that anyone who copies anything for any reason is a "pirate" raping and pillage them and their families.
All *I* want is a backup disk as legally provided for in fair use law. An *exact* duplicate gives this backup disk while violating *no* law. As I said, not even the DMCA.
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ok ... so this software intercepts the decoded movie and allows you to burn it to DVD or CD.... and this is "illegal" mainly because they say so. So what's the difference of me hooking up a VCR to a DVD Player and recording the stream?? This is coming from someone who doesn't own a DVD Player and if all this stuff keeps going on won't get one. I find it all quite idiotic myself, "we'll let them have backups of thier media, but we won't allow them to actually copy it" it all makes no sence. I think we should all file lawsuits against the MPAA for mental distress :P. You know, if we had duals instead of lawsuits .... there'd be a lot less stupid lawsuits.... or maybe just a lot more people with guns :P.
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That would explain why I find blank tapes so hard to find and the price to be so high.
No end user demand.
With the microwave thing you're just being doofey though. I've never met *anyone* (including the guy down the street who actually called me up to show him how to use glue and change the string on his weedwhacker)who didn't know how to use one of these, from 2 to over 100 years old. They're the most universally used, and loved, bit of kitchen equipment since, well, sliced bread and the electric toaster.
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I'm so confused...
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If private property is equal to capitalism. Therefore must restricting the use of private property be communism, becouse its the opposite, right?
MPAA = communist bastards
This was kinda what I was thinking with my "Honour System" post the other day.
I think it will shortly get to the stage where music and video producers accept that unauthorised digital distribution / copying of their material CANNOT be stopped.
The industry could then move to an "Honour System" of payment, whereby a viewer could make payment for digital content _however_ they received it.
Multimedia file formats should contain meta-data information about an Internet location from where payment for the material can be made should one so wish to do so.
I have read through slashdot that when you buy a DVD, you arent really buying the Digital Media, but license to view that Digital Media. This brings up the question of that basic right to re-sell something which you have purchased, or so I'm told.
... ... however, if instead..." and bring about a total intellectual anarchy and new age of perversion.
Anyway, the idea comes from that ROM-trading system mentioned a month or two ago. The idea behind that was: people have actual media, and in order to trade it, they send people the files, during which time their media can't be used- just like trading with someone who lives by you, only without the lives by you part.
So I figure if what I own when buying a DVD isnt media, but a license, why not rent out that license instead?
So here's the proposal: Buy a DVD, put it on a shelf, keep track of how long you spend Not watching the movie.
Then rent out the license for the time you arent using it.
If a DVD is a license, not media, you don't have to worry about where the physical media is in order to use the license. If I buy a DVD, go on a trip out of state, and download a rip of the DVD to watch while I'm gone, it's just as legal as making a copy of a movie on VHS and taking that with you on a trip- everything's fine as long as no one is watching that other copy at the same time. Rights are intangable, so your Rights stay with you wherever you go. Rights also dont need to stay in touch with the rest of the world's time. If I'm licensed to see 30 minutes of a slug beating a mormon to death with a petrified woodpecker, I can watch 10 minutes now, 10 minutes later, and save that extra 10 minutes for a friend of mine whom I wish to torment.
DVD's, though, have no time limit. You could put one in your drive now and keep the thing spinning until the drive wears out or the disc disintegrates beyond readability. Fortunatly though, if either of those happen, you're still allowed to watch the movie: a DVD is a license, not a media.
So, there's no time limit, Rights stay with you wherever you go, and rights dont have to follow time in a straight line.
Plenty of people have DVDs which have been sitting on their shelves unwatched for months. That could have been 720 showings of the movie, all of which remain unseen. What happens to those showings? Well, you're licensed to have viewed them whether you did or not, why not sell them?
License Rental can enable thousands of otherwise ilegal viewings to become legit, all at an affordable price. And there's really no drawbacks.
Before commenting on anything I just said, please note that I am aware that I am not familiar with the subject matter I am typing about. I really couldnt give a shit whether anything I said was true or not. The post was meant only to get people thinking. Whether those thoughts are intelligent or not is up to the person doing the thinking. I dont care if they are, the real point is for someone to look at this and go "That's completely wrong.
You may have noticed the actual topic of this post ended abruptly. I wish to assure you that this was because I stopped typing on the subject.
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This will likely be reduced to the MPAA burying this company in legal costs.
Justice isn't won when a large corporation sues a small company, it is bought. Don't kid yourself.
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If you want to backup your MPAA-cartel DVDs on blank DVD media, you need to decode their market-price-fixing CSS encoding.
Or you can open a DVD pressing facility and make professional copies, CSS entact, because you won't be limited to "consumer" blank DVDs that have the CSS area closed off.
" An average of 14 people a year are killed by wild lions."
I'd just like to ask, where exactly are all these lions coming from? Only so many can escape from zoos you know.
Here is another interview of the CEO of 321 studioos and how they would like you to participate in their companies cause.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php3?ID=5389
Mountain lions (aka pumas or cougars) not African Lions.
leopards, but "lion" sure sounds more impressive and is the most generally understood common name. It's also been called the "American Panther" which is, technically, more correct, but then no one knows what the hell you're talking about.
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* Get people hooked on music.
* Raise prices to where people stop buying, and start pirating.
* Blame someone else about loss in sales.
* Insult and sue your remaining users. Make their life miserable when they want to use your product.
* Sue people that make your product accessable..
* Wonder why everyone hates you, and you go out of business..
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I understand taxi companies nationwide are using Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan and all the other major car companies for "stealing their profits." After all, why should a person take a cab when he can just as easily buy his own car? It's horrible, the amount of sheer flagrant THEFT going on out there!
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Ever hear of the bus? Or maybe a more fuel-efficient car? Or a bike?
The car is probably people's second biggest expense after rent/mortgage. Think about these blue sky estimates: $250/month payment + $75/month insurance + $75/month gas + $50/month parking or tolls = $450/month. And some families have two cars!
That's a lot of bread. That's 10 movie outings or dinners for me and the missus. That's an iPod a month. A desktop every 2 months. That's a pretty fancy vacation every 6 months. That's over $5,000 a year. If I started saving car money when my child was born, e would have over $90,000 for college (plus interest).
Don't get me wrong. Cars are useful, but don't think you can't do anything about the cost.
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Here are more of Jack Valenti's pearls of wisdom during his 1982 anti-VCR testimony to the US Congress.
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The problem with this situation is not that MPAA is suing 321 Studios - we expect that from them. They should be suing them to shut them down, not to gain all their profits. This is yet another example that shows their "ethics." The MPAA have no problems with copying media - as long as they are the ones making the money off of it. As an unrelated observation on the subject, it's odd that some MPAA members also produce DVD burners (SONY comes to mind).
Actually killing people is illegal, it's called man slaughter. Even if you don't intentionally kill someone it's still a crime.
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You must think in Russian.
And guess what - the second profits go down from a boycott they blame it on home-copying. And they've proof this time of the damages!
Self-defense killing is legal, unless you live in a really crappy place where they like criminals more than you.
The efficiency of the collective hive mind allows the MPAA and its sister organization the RIAA to pursue an unprecedented number of cases against companies and individuals by using a single Unified Tort Architecture applicable to all cases. UTA, inspired by the success of nVidia's Unified Driver Architecture, remains tightly controlled by the MPAA and its sole licensee - the RIAA.
It's funny that their site claims the software is good for backing up your dvd collection which is worth "hundreds of dollars"...
Of course, you need a DVD burner of some sort (a few hundred dollars), a DVD-ROM drive (less than one hundred dollars), their software ($99), and DVD recordable or re-recordable media, (on such a huge collection of dvds, that's gonna cost you at least $100). That doesn't count the amount of time (1 hour each with current DVD burning speeds) to actually make the copies!
It's nice to know that you can do this, technologically speaking, but unless you had a collection into the thousands of dollars, it doesn't seem to be worth it. Wouldn't it be cheaper to replace the DVD's individually if they are damaged, stolen, or lost?
Of course, it'd be cool for DVD's that are supposedly in limited release (still, it seems you'd be better off buying one to watch and leaving another one shrink-wrapped just in case, if you're really that paranoid or want to EBAY it some day).
I work at a public access station in my community. We recently produced a sporting event of significant sentimental value to the community. We're now in the process of converting our DV footage to DVD.
In terms of affordable DVD authoring software, there isn't much out there. We purchased an NLE from a regional specialty shop that came with a DVD burner. Bundled with it came DVD-It LE. This is a consumer grade product that is focused on being "intuitive", to the point that it is anything but. Its basically what iMovie is to Adobe Premiere or Avid XPress.
I looked into higher end software. Anything even remotely worth the money out there is $1000 USD. Sonic has RealDVD, but this is more expensive than Premiere and almost as expensive as a Real Time editing card!
Even if we did drop the grand on a high end software product, it most likely wouldn't come with CSS Encryption. And, as far as I know, our burner wouldn't be capable of writing it into the disk if it did.
And even if it did, there is an enormous amount of time required in creating a quality DVD. First you need to capture the footage. Then prep it and export it into MPEG 1 or 2. This in and of itself is not a trivial matter. On our Dual Xenon 1 GHz chips, it takes about four times realtime to encode. (There are hardware cards that do this in real time, and I've heard of realtime encoding on other systems; our machine is also going back to the manufacturer for remac.) Then, import it into the DVD program, and layout the DVD.
My point, even at local access television station, you can't produce a Holywood-style DVD. Sure, we have multi-thousand dollar DV cameras that some studios are using (well, with a few addons) to produce features, but you can't make the DVD. If the industry has locked out us, I feel bad for the average consumer.
As a side note, its possible to produce a S-VHS tape (that is higher quality than a VHS) with a $250 VCR from an electronics store that is better than what you pick up at Blockbuster.
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That was in Louisiana moron, and the guy was Japanese, trespassing on someone else's property after dark, and making threatening advances (apparently trying to scare the guy in the halloween spirit). The Japanese kid apparently didn't know that advancing on someone holding a gun to you is not a good idea. Social darwinism in action.
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