I can't believe someone would be able to read that and keep a straight face. Let's just say - if I were drinking something right now, I'd need a new keyboard.
Thats a good thing cause im sure it would be ultra-sweet Kool-Aid
Here's the deal - the movie industry will NOT allow you to legally play hi-def content stored on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD media (with the ICT bit set) unless there is a sufficient layer or copy protection built into the system that's authorized to play it.
You are legally allowed to make a copy of any license you purchase for safe keeping ..or for the sake of copying it ... so long as you don't sell it or profit from the copy. This is also to be done with reasonable amounts of cost incurred from the licensee ..with part of the initial cost paid by the licenser to the licensee for that very right to copy it. Why on earth do they make blank media? Its a bajillion dollar industry.
So reasonable cost is not going out to purchase another brand spankin new computer with a bajillion gigs of 9million mhz of ram along with a 1,000usd disc drive and 500usd more for a monitor only to be able to WATCH a movie on the computer.
People really need to start looking at this from a rational and practical perspective rather than succumbing to all the baseless fear-mongering.
I'm not knocking your beliefs ... even though i find them amusing and absurd. This "DRM" has the belief that EVERYONE breaks the law and therefore we must punish everyone first. Remember that somewhat important saying or belief ... ya know ..the one the good ol US of A is founded on ... illegal search and seizure ...oh no not exactly that one ..how about Innocent until PROVEN guilty?
Its utterly UNNECESSARY and ABSURD to imagine everyone having to go purchase BRAND NEW monitors capable of playing HDCP and DRM ..along with specific cables ..ect ect ..and there eventually will be NO WAY TO AVOID IT as long as people like you continue to put your heads in the sand and assume everything is just great while the whistle blowers .. are quite aware of whats going on ..and what is likely to happen are trying their damndest to thwart it.
Not everyone is as financially well off as many of us ..and 600 bucks for a tv is an ENORMOUS cost/investment. Can you imagine having to go pay 600 more dollars next year cause of DRM?
So ..if you have it your way ..i will no longer be able to copy my own discs and play them ...and if one happens to get scratched ..or even warps because of crap quality disc/plastic ..guess what .. i gotta go BUY ANOTHER ONE... when i already own the license to begin with. That being said ..i even paid for the right to copy it the first time ..so now ive paid for the same license twice and paid twice to never copy it ..even though i paid to have the right to copy it as many times as necessary the first time.
I don't think piracy is nearly as bad as what they project ... and if they think so ... i know more people that would never pay 30 bucks for a hddvd / blue ray movie anyway ..so at least if they purchase a copy of it on the media ... they still get a chunk of the profit ..either way.
I think the tides on all this copy protection , DRM, Intellectual Rights , patents ... are changing ... people are fed up with the katrillion billion trillion dollar lawsuits pinned on 8 year olds for having some lame crap clip of some song from a 20usd cd that only has 1 decent song on it which was chopped up from some song 10 years ago .. to make a 5 second ringtone ... or some john doe company in poe dunk wyoming that has a patent on the way the sun rises so in turn he owns the rights to the water ... all the plants ... all energy ... tanning beds, the beach .. and even gravity ..and if everyone doesnt pay him his royalties he will file suit and get 50googleillion dollars.
I realize that is a super exaggeration ..but it gets to the point.
all someone is gonna hve to do (im sure its more complicated than i imply here) is make some pci-e or pcmcia card with HDMI / DVI in and out ..which is capable of carrying video/audio in and out. they could have their own piggyback chips to circumvent the HDCP/DRM .... of course there would be those to use it for their financial benefit ...but people like me would have it just so i could watch whatever the hell i want ... have the ability to copy my discs ...make backups ..and not have someone ..which i paid ... tell me or control what i do ..or how i do something ..or even when i do it.