Re: Avatar Blu-Ray Digital Rights Management bites legitimate customers

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've seen plenty of mediocre movies with great SFX, so I have no current
plans to buy Avatar.  That said, for watching content on PCs or making my
own archive copies without DRM restrictions I use AnyDVDHD (
http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html ).  I bought it to bypass DVD region
coding but it's uses go far beyond that and include rendering these nonsense
DRM schemes irrelevant.

Unfortunately it is not free but IMHO it is worth every cent.

One thing the article neglects to mention is that manufacturers aren't under
obligation to issue firmware updates and they've no revenue enticement to do
so.  Because of that I'm seeing a future where the average consumer's
perfectly working BD player stops playing new releases as the manufacturer
has stopped issuing updates for it.  Solution: Buy another player & feed the
old one to a landfill.  Or, as I do, bypass the DRM to make a personal copy
that can be enjoyed on any player in the house.

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, sjl <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=8193&tag=nl.e539
>
> "... we get a beautiful example of how DRM hurts and harms
> paying customers while having no impact on pirates..."
>
> - sjl
>
>
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