The BBC ran an episode of Horizon concerning this called "The Day We Learned To Think".
They talk about how early man (and woman... gotta be politically correct these days) underwent the first steps of learning to think by drawing geometric shapes, with sets of parallel and lines etched into cave floors and walls.
This will be easily hacked...
A DVD recorder costs about £100 to £300, so why not just link up the "Play-once" player to a DVD recorder by SCART and rip it to a normal DVD?
Even if they use the MacroVision encoding, it can be stripped if you know what you're doing. If not, you can probably find something on the internet to do it.
If they STILL find some strange way of protecting it, it could still be ripped in two ways:
1) Video camera pointed at the TV.
* Upside: Cheap, easy.
* Downside: Low quality.
2) Buy an old TV, connect it up to the player and tinker with it, so that the connections to the CRT driver are rigged to be sent to a box which re-organises the signals back into a standard video signal and into the recording machine of your choice.
* Upside: High/perfect quality copy.
* Downside: Expensive, you have to know what you're doing when it comes to video related electronics.
It's all market hype, it won't work, it'll be exploited so easily and quickly.
If you can watch it, you can rip it. That's all there is to it.
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The BBC ran an episode of Horizon concerning this called "The Day We Learned To Think". They talk about how early man (and woman... gotta be politically correct these days) underwent the first steps of learning to think by drawing geometric shapes, with sets of parallel and lines etched into cave floors and walls.
This will be easily hacked... A DVD recorder costs about £100 to £300, so why not just link up the "Play-once" player to a DVD recorder by SCART and rip it to a normal DVD? Even if they use the MacroVision encoding, it can be stripped if you know what you're doing. If not, you can probably find something on the internet to do it. If they STILL find some strange way of protecting it, it could still be ripped in two ways: 1) Video camera pointed at the TV. * Upside: Cheap, easy. * Downside: Low quality. 2) Buy an old TV, connect it up to the player and tinker with it, so that the connections to the CRT driver are rigged to be sent to a box which re-organises the signals back into a standard video signal and into the recording machine of your choice. * Upside: High/perfect quality copy. * Downside: Expensive, you have to know what you're doing when it comes to video related electronics. It's all market hype, it won't work, it'll be exploited so easily and quickly. If you can watch it, you can rip it. That's all there is to it.