I find it amazing that in these cases they always completely ignore the fact that you can make perfect digital copies of DVDs without using DeCSS at all. Assume you have a DVD burner. You simply read the bits of the original DVD, and burn an exact copy. No DeCSS, no decryption, no nothing. The copy will work fine.
How about this? You extract all the bits from the DVD and put them into the DVD equivalent of an ISO image (this may not exist yet, but it will). You then post that image on the Internet. Someone downloads it, burns it onto DVD, and voila, illegal copy, again without DeCSS. Sure, right now these images would take forever to download since they'd be several gigabytes in length, but network technology is improving all the time. That issue will go away given time.
DeCSS does nothing to aid Internet piracy except that it allows you to recompress the DVD into a smaller and *lesser quality* format. Which means there still great motivation for going out and getting the original.
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Don't be too sure about not being disappointed. I loved Snow Crash, and The Diamond Age starts wonderfully, but about halfway through it starts to go to hell and by the end it completely sucks. Snow Crash is much better than The Diamond Age IMHO. I haven't had a chance to read Zodiac or Cryptonomicon yet.
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If they "adequately documented their conflict of interest" then they were not "caught."
The article summary is quite misleading given that the 210-pound figure includes the weight of the pilot.
Yes, they should bring out some of those obscure films on DVD like "Star Wars".
I find it amazing that in these cases they always completely ignore the fact that you can make perfect digital copies of DVDs without using DeCSS at all. Assume you have a DVD burner. You simply read the bits of the original DVD, and burn an exact copy. No DeCSS, no decryption, no nothing. The copy will work fine.
How about this? You extract all the bits from the DVD and put them into the DVD equivalent of an ISO image (this may not exist yet, but it will). You then post that image on the Internet. Someone downloads it, burns it onto DVD, and voila, illegal copy, again without DeCSS. Sure, right now these images would take forever to download since they'd be several gigabytes in length, but network technology is improving all the time. That issue will go away given time.
DeCSS does nothing to aid Internet piracy except that it allows you to recompress the DVD into a smaller and *lesser quality* format. Which means there still great motivation for going out and getting the original.
Don't be too sure about not being disappointed. I loved Snow Crash, and The Diamond Age starts wonderfully, but about halfway through it starts to go to hell and by the end it completely sucks. Snow Crash is much better than The Diamond Age IMHO. I haven't had a chance to read Zodiac or Cryptonomicon yet.