An anti-piracy concept I agree with
Nov. 2nd, 2005 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swehhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/02/hd_dvd_audio_antipiracy_scheme/
Basically, the proposal is for HD-DVD players to have a circuit that will detect a certain audio signal and will refuse to play any disk containing that signal. Movies released in cinemas will have this signal on it as a watermark, so anyone copying the the film (either directly or using a camcorder) will pick up the signal and the resulting pirate disks will refuse to play. Official HD-DVDs won't have the signal and will play directly.
If the technology can be made to work reliably, then I see nothing wrong with it. It doesn't limit fair use (although see the warning about them wanting to add a second watermark...) of stuff you've bought and won't harm the legitimate consumer at all. It also won't stop piracy where people re-encode the disk to a DivX and play it on a computer, but it's not designed to stop that.
Basically, the proposal is for HD-DVD players to have a circuit that will detect a certain audio signal and will refuse to play any disk containing that signal. Movies released in cinemas will have this signal on it as a watermark, so anyone copying the the film (either directly or using a camcorder) will pick up the signal and the resulting pirate disks will refuse to play. Official HD-DVDs won't have the signal and will play directly.
If the technology can be made to work reliably, then I see nothing wrong with it. It doesn't limit fair use (although see the warning about them wanting to add a second watermark...) of stuff you've bought and won't harm the legitimate consumer at all. It also won't stop piracy where people re-encode the disk to a DivX and play it on a computer, but it's not designed to stop that.
