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

[jedi]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 05:06:30PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> 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.

    Long before? Hardly. The DMCA was passed a year before CSS was cracked.
Even if the suits and the lobbyists didn't know how weak an vulnerable it
was, certainly industry professionals did.

    "Long before" implies something more like 5 years or even 20.

     Now what does qualify as "long before" are all of the other failed 
attempts at copy protection over the years. The same goes for companies
and industries that should have been wiped out by piracy.