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RE: [dvd-discuss] Technology Admin comments



Doesn't this technology have the potential to engender a black market in the
"Recoding" of DVD titles?   While I am
mildly sympathetic to concerns about piracy of large numbers of DVD's and
remarketing them in a different region,
I also suspect that the DeCSS may actually facilitate a new kind of piracy
by providing a motive for "crackers"
to recode a DVD for different regions.  Then they would purchase it for one
region and pirate it for the rest.  After all,
what is the cost of a single DVD vs. the potential revenue of marketing it
to an entire REGION?  They could easily buy one and then sell thousands of
black market recoded copies.

So then if I buy a DVD good for region 1 only, it should be fairly simple
for pirates to just decode to an image file and then recode it for all other
regions.  In effect, it seems to me that we have created a vast market for
pirates with this
technology that supposedly prevents piracy.  I think it is similar in some
ways to prohibition in the 1920's;  the cure may be worse than the problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu]On Behalf Of Steve Bryan
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 7:19 AM
To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Technology Admin comments


> That once we buy a movie or playing equipment we should be free to use
it...........DVD should play on my laptop where ever in the world I take it

At the risk of being pedantic I think it should be noted that if a DVD plays
in your laptop it does not matter where in the world you travel: the DVD
will continue to play. You undoubtedly understand that point but someone
reading the comment might suspect the DVD would mysteriously stop playing
when you cross a border.