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More Incompatible DVDs and CDs Coming Your Way

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-make-us-modchip-our-stereos dept.

wwwssabbsdotcom writes " More DRM is coming to DVD and CD shelves in the future. Looks like more incompatible discs for players around the world. Rip-proof and self-destructing seems to be the latest DRM craze."

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  1. DRM for the U.S. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Edible DVDs

    1. Re:DRM for the U.S. by ShortSpecialBus · · Score: 4, Funny

      I am suing you for copyright infringement, as that could be confused with Edible BVDs, which already make millions each year

      or something...

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  2. DRM for good? by nacs · · Score: 5, Funny
    Last year, record label Sony Music came under fire when new European CD releases by artists Celine Dion and Shakira wouldn't play....
    Is this really a bad thing? I mean Shakira may be semi-decent but Celine Dion not playing? Who's going to miss that? Chrysler?
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    1. Re:DRM for good? by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Last year, record label Sony Music came under fire when new European CD releases by artists Celine Dion and Shakira wouldn't play...."

      Millions of boyfriends everywhere simultaneously sigh with relief.

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    2. Re:DRM for good? by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny
      rest of the quote: ... wouldn't play on a PC or Apple's Macintosh computer.

      Sony probably came under fire because Celine would still play on regular CD players, thus pissing off car owners.

    3. Re:DRM for good? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


      Millions of boyfriends everywhere simultaneously sigh with relief.

      Two of them are even slashdot readers!

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  3. Hmm. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    So if I buy the "Mission Impossible" DVD, I better heed the warning that says "This message will self destruct in 5 seconds" ?

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  4. You'll Just Have To Trust Us... by vudujava · · Score: 5, Funny
    The next generation of DRM:
    "You'll just have to trust us. Even though you can't play the movie, it was really, really, really good." - MPAA

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  5. Re:Does it matter? by notque · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I'd rather pirate, to each their own.

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  6. From the article... by rnturn · · Score: 3, Funny
    ``Celine won't sing''

    Heck... I might pay for that!

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  7. Re:Office 2003 by ItWasThem · · Score: 5, Funny

    And just wait for the first time some idiot CFO accidentally locks himself out of his own files...

    Heck, the CFO could just circumvent the copy protection on those files. What's a DMCA violation on the criminal record of a CFO these days anyways? It wouldn't even show up until the 8th or 9th page.

  8. Support your local "pirate" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    This is why you need to support your friendly neighborhood "pirate" disk merchant. Imagine if you don't support him? He could go out of business and then you'd have no choice but to buy incompatible disks and upgrade your player whenever they thought it was time to plump up their bottom line.

    Even if you don't buy every disk from the local "pirate," you should try to buy a few now and then.

    Remember "piracy" is the only guarantee you have of:

    1. Always being able to get a copy of a disk you want. Say the powers that be decide to suppress some disk for some reason? Copyright allows them to censor something no matter whether it is important poltical speech or not.

    2. Being able to get unedited copies of disks. This is similar to the above. Just because Hollywood decided Eyes Wide Shut was to risque without censorship for Americans doesn't mean you have to live with that.

    3. Being able to get copies of disks that won't self destruct and will work in the broadest variety players.

    The only ethical thing to do is to support organized crime in their effort to provide you with disks that you actually own and don't still belong to the companies you've purchased them from after you purchased them.

  9. Re:Decay of entire entertainment industry, society by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's about time people stop wasting time watching TV, it really cuts into the amount of time you can waste each day reading slashdot.

  10. Re:Yeah. by mbbac · · Score: 3, Funny
    Presumably the authors of the works are getting paid somehow, otherwise they wouldn't want to sign with a company.
    You need to do a bit of fact checking.
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  11. I tried.. by Genjurosan · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried to read the article, but it melted away before I could read it. It only allowed 5 minutes to read it. I suppose I shouldn't have gone to get a drink.

  12. Re:Yeah. by JonTurner · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...most of them will spend their lives working as strippers or grocery store clerks or, even worse, journalists. They will die alone, unloved and unknown in a run-down apartment with 47 cats, to the end clinging to the pathetic hope that they can write the Great American Novel if only someone will pay attention to them."

    I must admit that it sounds tempting. What are the disadvantages?

  13. Re:They keep on trying by uradu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn, you got me stuck in an endless loop with that recursive footnote there, until my cube neighbor rebooted me. Careful with those asterisks, cowboy.

  14. Re:Yeah. by Lt+Razak · · Score: 4, Funny
    Well technically, when he sold the originals on the 2nd market, he lost the fair-use rights to those mp3's. He needs to delete them.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm just like him, except for the buying the original cd part :)

  15. Re:Yeah. by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Funny
    It was called DIVX. It was miserable failure.
    No, it's not a miserable failure. I've got upwards of 50 DIVX movies on a hard disk in one of my computers.