Movie Junkie
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The problem with CMC programming is that most of the time it doesn't last long enough to run it even one time.What about CMC - -
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I heard many years ago that as long as the government kept us busy being pissed-off at each other we would be too busy to see what the hell they were doing to us.Are so many people that blind? Or don't they care about the future of their country?A bit of both I think bill.
most are in survival mode just trying to get by and feed families pay bills etc and dont have time for the crap that politicians throw their way ,some are of the mind that it doesn't matter who gets elected you're going to get screwed anyway so whats the use .The Govt. counts on that, here in the US only 65% of all eligible voters vote and then some candidate gets elected with say 55% of that vote so its not like its the voice of the majority that gets him/her elected .Then they're called world leaders ,I wondered if any of them has taken a good look at the state of the worlds affairs at all, this kind of leadership we can all do without
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I'm sorry but in my haste to answer you I misstated what I had wanted to say. I'm not an expert either but I am under the impression that the Supreme Court decision was based on laws that were in effect at the time of their ruling. Those laws gave us the right to make copies of movies that we owned in addition to being able to copy programs "off the air".I'm no expert, but, as far as I know, Congress never passed any laws, even with the Betamax case. That that was a Supreme Court decision. If it was laws put into the books, then, none of the media companies would have any leverage at all in terms of copying from TV, etc. The DMCA and useless copyright extensions ad infinitum are the only laws I know of that were passed to give the content owners the strong arm they currently have. Which was exactly what they wanted. Something like DMCA passed that was so vague it gave virtual power through fear over everything. -
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Could someone explain to me why when I type in http://forum.imgburn.com/ I come to this forum but when I type in http://www.forum.imgburn.com/ I go to some other place? (Try it yourself.)
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All I know is that Congress could have passed laws against DRM just as they did in the Sony/Betamax case back in the 1970's that would have allowed us to make legal backups of the movies we own. but instead they passed laws making it illegal to circumvent the copy protection on those same movies.Well, remember, there is a subtle
difference between DRM and the remote disabling, which actually was to physically destroy your hardware. Ala with a small explosive charge, apparently. Also, DID the House/Congress even have to okay DRM? Or was it just like so much else of that 
and just added in their by the respective consortiums to placate someone else? 
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Sorry...duplicate post!
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Are we talking about the same House and Senate that allowed DRM?Remote disabling of the hardware will never happen. In the US, some crazy guy in the House or Senate, and they're mostly crazy so I realize that doesn't narrow it down
tried to introduce legislation to force PC manufacturers to include a hardware and software scheme to allow remote destruction of a PC should it be detected to contain pirated materials of all kinds. Yeah, all it takes is some clever virus to access this and REALLY cause hardware damage across the board, a first for a virus. Thankfully, it was rightfully shot down.
They allowed that and they will not do a damn thing about BD+. For the most part they are in bed with these companies and while being in bed with them they will devise ways of FCUKING the rest of us.
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If the general public was able to see the problems with DiVX maybe they'll be able to do the same with this other crap!Movie Junkie is right - don't buy the damn things. But I think as consumers, forum members are a minority -
Sorry Shamus. I should have realized it was a rhetorical question. (I must be that old and silly.)
The only benefits will be to the manufacturer.I?d love to know what the benefits are of having a network capable DVD player that can secretly talk to its manufacturer. I don?t think so.
I realise that. (Not quite that old and silly yet).
Instead of buying one of these beasties from $ony, I?m more inclined to wait until the market settles down (meaning I?ll wait until cracked firmware for Blu-Ray etc is available in set-top machines produced in China), so *I* decide what it can play or can?t play. When new $ony products hit the market with ?more features? they should seriously consider including a tube of anal lube with the purchase price so customers have a better idea of what they?re in for.
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The ONLY way is not to purchase the equipment of the discs. Then it might go the way of the original DIVX discs and players.Christ, this almost seems like an invasion of privacy. Where will this end.............
A line surely has to be drawn somewhere....... 
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The only benefits will be to the manufacturer. Beside the fact that they'll be able to shut it down whenever they want they will also be able to keep track of what we watch. They also might be able to tell if the discs are from a rental of a purchase.My dodgy, thirty dollar DVD player looks mighty good compared to this. I?d love to know what the benefits are of having a network capable DVD player that can secretly talk to its manufacturer. I don?t think so. -
From what I understand the player will need to be connected to the telephone line and if it's not connected for an unknown specific time period it will cease to work. They will also, supposedly, be able to update the firmware in the player via the discs that you play.So, presumably the player will need to be connected to the net before you can play a disc?Bollocks to that!
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You've got that right!Here's another one that say's it all!We, the people of the United States of America, as a whole, better wake up and smell the roses because something has been smelling rotten for quite a while. It's a shame when your own leaders are selling you out! I often wonder why so many people tend to live in their "own little world" with their rose colord glasses
and fail to see the real picture. Are so many people that blind? Or don't they care about the future of their country?
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Here is a tidbit from an article in BusinessWeek Online...
"STRANGLEHOLD ON CONTENT. Even more extreme is a scheme called BD+ that deals with the problem of what to do when someone cracks the encryption scheme. The players can automatically download new crypto if the old one is broken. But there's an ominous feature buried in this so-called protection mechanism: If a particular brand of player is cryptographically "compromised," the studio can remotely disable all of the affected players. In other words, if some hacker halfway across the globe cracks Sony's software, Sony can shut down my DVD player across the Net."
The entire article can be read here.
Now I'm not condoning piracy but the BD+ scheme is pure BULLSHIT! I could be puchasing all of the HD discs that come out but if someone in Bumblefuck Singapore cryptographically compromises the brand of player I have then Sony can shut down my unit even though I don't have any pirated discs! As I said before this is pure BULLSHIT!
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But if his DVD's weren't stolen byOh yeah, and you were making US$290M a year.
he'd really make a lot of 
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