On 18/05/14 03:42 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
Sadly the digital restrictions are becoming worse. While the DVD CSS was cracked as were early BluRay DRMs, the current DRMs are much harder to circumvent.On 05/18/2014 03:22 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:On 5/18/2014 2:15 PM, Gary Dale wrote:If packaging prevents me from using a product for a purpose that I am legally entitled to use it for then I have a right to demand that the packaging be changed. DRM prevents not just my use on platforms that they don't support but also to make fair use of the product.Can you show where that is occurring now? If not, your argument is without merit.The entire thing has become an "Unmarked Helicopters" issue. Besides, far worse tricks were pulled in the 80's regarding anti-copying of floppies. Ways were found around almost over-night. Yoho. :/ Ric
This is due in part to the Internet and in part due to better technology, which allows players to be updated to include new schemes when the older ones are cracked. You couldn't do that with DVD players because the original schemes were hard coded and not set up to be updated. BluRay players allow the DRM schemes to be updated to play new movies that come out using them.
The DRM schemes seem to much harder to crack as well, judging from the number of BluRays that require a commercial environment to be playable. Linux can play the movies only if they aren't using the latest DRM schemes. Otherwise you need Windows, a Mac or a dedicated player.