DRM is Obnoxiously Stupid
Ih, for the number of people trying to watch movies in Linux, it's not that big of a deal. They probably get more complaints that they don't release movies on VHS any more.
There is a specially designed machine to read DVDs, it's called a DVD player
. If you're going to invest in making your monitor better than your TV, you might as well go the full mile and turn it into a full multimedia centre so you can hook your DVD player and cable up to the fancy monitor, then you don't need the TV at all. Just because your computer has a DVD drive for reading/writing data discs, which happens to work with most DVDs, doesn't mean they make any kind of promise that your DVD video will play on an obscure operating system. Kind of like complaining that you can't automatically run programs designed for Windows on Linux without going through some kind of intermediate step.
Plus we all know you can just log into Windows instead of Linux with the push of a button at startup and then it will work fine.
There is a specially designed machine to read DVDs, it's called a DVD player
. If you're going to invest in making your monitor better than your TV, you might as well go the full mile and turn it into a full multimedia centre so you can hook your DVD player and cable up to the fancy monitor, then you don't need the TV at all. Just because your computer has a DVD drive for reading/writing data discs, which happens to work with most DVDs, doesn't mean they make any kind of promise that your DVD video will play on an obscure operating system. Kind of like complaining that you can't automatically run programs designed for Windows on Linux without going through some kind of intermediate step. Plus we all know you can just log into Windows instead of Linux with the push of a button at startup and then it will work fine.
"But I shouldn't have to" -- yeah, well then keep on hackin
Edited: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:06:49
DVDs contain data. The only problem at all with reading that, is the provision they've added specifically so that you can't read them on your DVD drive in your computer. A DVD player is just a crappy computer with a DVD drive and proper codecs.
The reason that most DVDs will work with Windows is that Microsoft has paid to license the DRM of the movie studios to play the DVDs. It has nothing to do with compatibility or special additions for the studios to make it work, it's special additions to make it not work.
The short of it is, they added DRM, it hinders the consumer and does virtually nothing for actual circumvention.
The reason that most DVDs will work with Windows is that Microsoft has paid to license the DRM of the movie studios to play the DVDs. It has nothing to do with compatibility or special additions for the studios to make it work, it's special additions to make it not work.
The short of it is, they added DRM, it hinders the consumer and does virtually nothing for actual circumvention.
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Sometimes it seems like they're trying to MAKE you pirate!
I like DRM. It makes life more interesting.
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Another point you should realise is that I run Linux, which isn't necessarily a friend of the movie industry. Lastly, you must be aware that DVDs contain Digital Rights Management software.
There is a library available in Linux called libcss2 that allows playback of movies with copy-protection. However, The Dark Knight happened to have revamped its encryption and decided to just curl up in a ball and say "nu-uh!" to the person who just legally purchased the film.
Whatever intended purpose there was to this, it was clearly an empty obscene gesture to those who just wanted to watch the movie, because the disc obviously contains the movie, and that being said, it's not going to be difficult to watch it anyway.
mplayer -sb 2500000 dvd:// -alang en
And it plays just fine. A single command line function to essentially skip the copy-protection.
Instead of trying to stop people from using the items that your customers have purchased, perhaps spend a little more time understanding that by doing so that makes simply downloading the movie a better product.
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