arstechnica.com — You all know the slogan "Guns don t kill people people kill people." At the Digital Rights Strategies conference in New York City a similar message could be heard: "DRM doesn t anger consumers content owners abusing DRM anger consumers."
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fduchSep 24, 2007
HDMI?
ahawksSep 24, 2007
I'd like to agree, and to an extent you're right. A speaker is a speaker, and could be re-wired to loop back to a recording device.However, video is another story. HDMI devices, including televisions, include a protocol to verify that things are not being copied. I forget what it's called, sorry. HDPC or something. This pisses me off specifically, because I have a nice fast media PC, hooked up to a nice big widescreen HDTV using DVI. It doesn't have this new fancy anti-piracy thing. So if I were to buy a blu-ray or HD-DVD drive for the computer, it would not play HD content, it would instead scale it down to 480p, same as regular DVD.
ichainsawSep 24, 2007
you didn't have a computer though...
managemyrightsSep 24, 2007
Assuming there were some media out there that actually implemented the scaling down, you could just decode it (using doom9 info/tools) and watch and unrestricted version at full resolution without HDMI. Making this work in Linux requires the same work-around.