Proposed Amendment could ban all DVD copying

[Chasym]

A proposed amendment to the current copy protection license governing DVDs would completely ban all DVD backups, and prevent DVD playback without the DVD disk being present inside the drive.

The amendment is currently being considered by the Content Protection Advisory Council (CPAC) of the DVD CCA. If enacted, it would become binding in 18 months from the date on which the CCA notified its licensees, which include DVD hardware and software manufacturers.

The amendment reads:
"6.4. Certain Requirements for DVD Products. DVD Products, alone or in combination with other DVD Products, shall not be designed to descramble scrambled CSS Data when the DVD Disc containing such CSS Data and associated CSS Keys is not physically present in the DVD Player or DVD Drive (as applicable), and a DVD Product shall not be designed to make or direct the making of a persistent copy of CSS Data that has been descrambled from such DVD Disc by such DVD Product."

yeah, that would pretty much blow because i do ALOT of projects and video work that i burn to dvd for friends and family.

 

[CmdrFly]

There will be a workaround before the hardware hits the streets, I'm surprised you would think otherwise. Can't silence the voice that exists in millions of bodies.

 

[Darkdante]

Even if they fail here. They'll try again, and again, and again, and again.........

Imagine if instead of spending all this wasted money on litigation they put all that money into finding a solution that makes both sides happy.

Kinda like what Apple did.

 

[Halifirien]

You gotta love the total disdain for the consumer at work. It's bad enough that they target people ripping their own DVDs to play on iPods, but now they want this? Feh!

 

[Arctyrael]

Lol, all this would do is inspire me to go out of my way to rip DVDs. They need more psychologists in law making.

 

[Stouter]

I'm failing to see where this affects you. CSS is the commercial scrambling on DVD's, your home-made videos probably wouldn't be scrambled at all, and not subject to this rule.

The way I read this is that it will become illegal to view a copyrighted CSS DVD from a backup copy, and make programs that remove the CSS illegal.

 

[Halifirien]

Correct. It wouldn't affect Chasym's home-made DVDs. It's meant to protect commercial DVDs. Still, it's a bad idea and violates the spirit of fair use. If I can rip my CDs to MP3 for use on my player, I see no reason why I shouldn't also be allowed to rip DVDs to MP4 for the same player.

I blame Jack Valenti.

 

[CmdrFly]

Well it sounds like new DVD players will be required at home that will know how to handle discs because their old ones don't have up-to-date CSS readers.

So your average Joe at home who just dropped $800 on a p-scan multi-disc DVD player with a built-in amp has to go buy another one in 2 years because Spiderman 5 will refuse to play on his "dated" hardware.

So it could, theoretically, affect everyone who has a DVD player today and wants to buy or rent movies in a year and a half.

It may not affect home video makers but they'll still need to replace their stuff if they intend to watch any commercial movies.

 

[RoM]

God forbid i protect my investment in the media i've purchased...