Orson Welles was a radio broadcaster who recorded H.G. WellsWar of the Worlds
H.G. Wells was a Victorian science fiction novelist. (granted, that's an irrelevent point, but credit where it's due, eh?)
George Orwell wrote 1984 which was indeed a good book, and featured Emmanual Goldstein as the head of a mythical revolution. Goldstein's figure was used to focus national pride and hatred of a most feared enemy. These feelings were used to keep the sheep like public focused on issues other then the corruption of their government
That's a particularly bad example, because XFree86 is under the BSD license, which has _no_ limitations on restriction of source or binary, aside from including credit.
The only thing DeCSS allows people to do is to create new content that can be played in any DVD. It won't limit piracy. It won't limit imports of DVDs across zones.
DeCSS allows independant filmmakers to easily distribute their productions. Without going through a distribution company.
DVD encryption doesn't exist to control DVD players. With the possible exception of zone restrictions, but even then the amount of true piracy and imported movies are minimal.
I think the real aim of the DVD CCA is to control piracy of the movie industry, not of an individual movie. To explain: If I dupe a DVD I can cheat some distribution company like Columbia or TriStar out of $20 in profits. But if I, as an independant filmmaker release my own DVD disc, I've cut them out of what could possibly be millions in revenues. DVDs, MP3s, CDRs the internet and a few other technologies allow content producers to completely and totally circumvent distributors.
If I was a distributor, I think this would scare me, badly.
What I think the DVD CCA is trying to do is to make DVDs difficult to produce. Can I produce a new movie and burn it to a DVD RAM? Probably. Will that play properly in a commercial DVD player? I don't know - but I doubt it.
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Orson Welles was a radio broadcaster who recorded H.G. Wells War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells was a Victorian science fiction novelist. (granted, that's an irrelevent point, but credit where it's due, eh?)
George Orwell wrote 1984 which was indeed a good book, and featured Emmanual Goldstein as the head of a mythical revolution. Goldstein's figure was used to focus national pride and hatred of a most feared enemy. These feelings were used to keep the sheep like public focused on issues other then the corruption of their government
That's a particularly bad example, because XFree86 is under the BSD license, which has _no_ limitations on restriction of source or binary, aside from including credit.
The only thing DeCSS allows people to do is to create new content that can be played in any DVD. It won't limit piracy. It won't limit imports of DVDs across zones.
DeCSS allows independant filmmakers to easily distribute their productions. Without going through a distribution company.
I think the real aim of the DVD CCA is to control piracy of the movie industry, not of an individual movie. To explain: If I dupe a DVD I can cheat some distribution company like Columbia or TriStar out of $20 in profits. But if I, as an independant filmmaker release my own DVD disc, I've cut them out of what could possibly be millions in revenues. DVDs, MP3s, CDRs the internet and a few other technologies allow content producers to completely and totally circumvent distributors.
If I was a distributor, I think this would scare me, badly.
What I think the DVD CCA is trying to do is to make DVDs difficult to produce. Can I produce a new movie and burn it to a DVD RAM? Probably. Will that play properly in a commercial DVD player? I don't know - but I doubt it.
Called 'Sneakers'... Not bad at all...
Perhaps this is an echelon cover story? Pretend to create some monitoring facility, and add FBI signs to the front of all the echelon buildings...
Maybe it's easier to justify something after the fact than to admit wrongdoing?
It's agnother gnu! :-)