A life with Digital Rights Managements.

[Spinaroonie]

You're a new parent, filled with lots of love for your child. You raise them how you know best. You buy expensive food and diapers, and an expensive video camera to record their firsts. You record them as they say their first words while wearing a Winnie-the-pooh T-shirt. You record as you watch the mwalk past your television set which is showing some of their favorite cartoons.

They grow up and you record dance numbers and plays and all of that.

However, when you go back to watch all of that years later you get a simple black screen.

You take your TV, VCR, Camera, etc. to the repair shop, trying to find why this happened.

The truth is, they're all functioning properly.

DRM. Digital Rights Management. Making sure that Industries maintain their rights, while you don't have any.

The next generation of Camcorder will not have any markings on its package, no sticker warning you. Just whenever a copyrighted song comes over the radio, or a copyrighted image comes into the plane of vision, it either shuts off or the image on the tape is pure black with no sound.

All of those moments. Lots forever.

The industries call it a "Triumph".

God Bless America, where corportations have rights, and consumers and users don't.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Rest assured that a hacking group will find a way to get around a system like this.

Recently, Sony released a new type of CD that was, according to them, uncopyable. This security measure added about $1 to the price of each CD you bought. But guess how the security was disabled. Guess how big, bad Sony was made a fool of....by the use of a simple permanent black marker. Some hacker found out that if you use a black marker to mark along the inside portion of a CD with this security system, then the security was totally disabled.

But as for what you described, I don't think it would fly. Copyright and royalties aside, there does come a point when inadvertent copying is just that....inadvertent.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Well, that CD system was really crude. A bad first file and a bad checksum. They will get better. And anybody can do a marker hack, but will Johnny Sixpack go and get a sodering iron to combat this?

 

[Private Vasquez]

I take my home movies black, just like my coffee. Sounds like a whole buncha fun to me.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Well, if hackers can develop "solderless" mod-chips for home consoles, then I'm sure they can develop something similar for VCR's, DVD players, Digital Cameras, Video Cameras etc... and at first they may be in a grey area legally, but I think that devices like that would sell like mad. This is of course if any of the aforementioned media rights blackouts start.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Well, if hackers can develop "solderless" mod-chips for home consoles, then I'm sure they can develop something similar for VCR's, DVD players, Digital Cameras, Video Cameras etc... and at first they may be in a grey area legally, but I think that devices like that would sell like mad. This is of course if any of the aforementioned media rights blackouts start.

How many anti-region DVD mod chips do you see?