Re: [TCLUG:12738] DVD/Reverse Engineering/etc.

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

> Perhaps the question is, when will it be free (or a least cheap) to
> download/copy/make DVDs?  I suppose there are people out there
> transferring the datastreams of various movies around already (though I
> wonder if they used DeCSS or some other method).  The cost of writable
> DVD media (not to mention the drive) is fairly prohibitive right now,
> although hard drives continue to drop in price.  You could get 10+ Gigs
> for $150, and you could store a few movies on that.
> 
> However, I'm also not going to spend a week downloading a movie.  No
> way, no how.

Look at mp3 5 years ago. Thats where we are with digital video. Look at
mp3 now. Now wait 5 years...

> > A better solution than suing everybody in sight would be to adopt Bruce
> > Schneier's Street Performer Protocol.
> 
> Enlighten us, O great one ;-)

Yeah...