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DVD anti-copying measures

DVD anti-copying measures

Posted Nov 15, 2020 17:45 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: DVD anti-copying measures by nybble41
Parent article: The RIAA, GitHub, and youtube-dl

I think I could make a case that the content protected by copyright is the movie, not the bits. A copy of encrypted bits that can't be played is not a copy of a movie, so encryption is a device that prevents copying.

Sometimes engineers, with their view inside the machine, have a rather different perspective on copyright law than authors and copiers.


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DVD anti-copying measures

Posted Nov 15, 2020 18:25 UTC (Sun) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link]

So my dm-crypted hard drive does not contain any movies, as the RIA* cannot play them?
Well played ;-)


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