OT: Digital Online Rights / DVD / Cellphone

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:19:41PM -0400, ted leslie wrote:
> 
> I saw this on the news too.
> 
> The rule about not knowning "anti-circumvention clause invalidates all the other new provisions"
> was interesting. Like the DVD crypto crack on linux (mplayer and the like),
> would be an issue (unless licensed?)
> 
> but its a joke really and here is why.
> 
> Play your songs (who cares about the copy protect on it, you only find out about that usually, when you go to copy it, and something senses the copy right bits and gives you a message),
> so you capture it analogue (like in the 80's!!!!), sure you get a bit of distortion, but ...
> its perfectly legal!!! putting a auxin 1/8 pin to ipod and grab it, no one can say booo.
> If you are like me and want perfection , i buy the CD's at play-it-again anyways. but if your
> not fussy about it, a good analogue capture will be fine.
> 
> so now, what about video?
> 
> well fortunately before the BS hdmi with copyright was standardize (or is  close ? ),
> RGB-out is on a lot of units, and may be for some time.
> just like with the analogue  audio case above, if/when a reasonably price RGB HD capture 
> card some out, again, copy right, who cares!, if its on the RGB out, they can't say boooo.
> again you gain a bit of distortion but, you are legally copying it, even if copy right bits are on 
> the digits version!
> not sure if macrovision applies any more or on RGB-HD but i circumvented that legally as well anyways :)
> 
> so hurry up RGB HD capture card manufactures! get a economical one out!!
> then the new bill has zero bite, in fact, it kinda works out nice, if you know the workarounds :)

Well blueray at least allows the disc maker to choose to only permit low
resolution output on analog, while full resolution must go through a
digital protected channel.  So far no one has enabled that option as far
as I know, since a number of early adopters of HDTV have HDTVs with
only analog (component) inputs, but they do have the option to do it
some day.

> but if your not a techy, you will have issue, all the manufactures of video product will
> be arm twisted into enforcing DRM on the I/O of the video (and audio) of the media devices.
> 
> and a standalone RGB-HD capture device .... i don't know of any for consumer market.
> For 2K$ there is a good xPCI based ones (pro and pro-sumer).

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Len Sorensen
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