[mythtv-users] State of blu-ray support?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 11/17/2013 12:42 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> No, that's not the only way.  The other way is to demonstrate the
>> futility of shenanigans.
>
> That's proven not to work. Those that inflict such crap on the world
> simply see that as meaning they need stickier, smellier sh*t.
>
> Eg, the CSS on DVDs was shown to be futile, so they* enacted laws to
> make it illegal to circumvent it. In addition, they did the CSS for
> BlueRay, which again has been shown not to be effective against other
> than against law abiding people who weren't going to redistribute
> unprotected videos anyway.

Unless you're going off the premise that all DRM schemes will forever be
ineffective, because they are based off an inherently insecure premise,
the laws you speak of were around long before the software to circumvent
CSS was available. They were pre-emptive.