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BLU-RAY pay to activate?

  • 24-03-2007 4:26pm
    #1
    thefinalstage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,503 ✭✭✭


    I have been hearing reports that in 2009 people will have to pay to activate their a codec or something when they want to watch a movie they purchased. Any truth in this? I get this idea from a comment I read on a blog.
    In May 2009, any blu-ray movie you purchase and want to view after that date will require you to fork over MORE cash for the activation renewal of the sickening and downright ridiculous DRM (AACS), just so you can watch a movie you already paid for.

    DRM- AACS = Stick it up your ass.


Comments

  • #2
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Where did you get this from?


  • #3
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    Thats rubbish.


  • #4
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    And of course, AACS only works if you can identify which key was compromised. If people just rip their DVDs and post the compressed plaintext, there's no way of knowing which player was compromised and so you can't revoke it.

    In other words, one smart hacker in Moldova extracts the key from a licensed player (likely not terribly hard for a motivated attacker with a lab), uses the key to rip movies from HD-DVDs, and posts the resulting files to the P2P networks. From there, even the most unsophisticated can simply download the movie, with no need to circumvent the DRM. And the guardians of AACS are powerless to do anything about this threat, because they have no way of figuring out what device key has been compromised.

    So why are they bothering with it? Not because it will slow "digital piracy" (always the public justification for DRM and laws like the DMCA that support it), but because it will give the Hollywood Cartel more power over the market for next-gen DVD players. When a Chinese company makes a player that fails to pay AACS royalties, or makes its product too easy to modify, or ignores region coding, or otherwise fails to toe the line, the Hollywood Cartel can "revoke" that player's device key. Suddenly, everyone who owns that player can no longer play new movies.

    Ah, yes -- use DRM to punish the innocent in the hope of pressuring player makers into obedience, all the while doing nothing to slow filesharing. Isn't it time we started to question the premise of DRM sytems like this, as well as the laws intended to support them?


  • #5
    Gerard_Smith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Gerard_Smith


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX

    Same thing will happen again if this is true.


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