Originally Posted by Wile_E
See, if the industry never wanted people to copy music cd's and DVD's, they should've never allowed any manufacturers to make recordable CD/DVD drives with the same laser wavelength.
The same for Blu-Ray/HD-DVD. They are allowing recordable formats and PC drives. So the industry shouldn't complain when people start making copies of these discs too. The industry itself is to blame for allowing people easy access to copy discs.
Hardware venders want to make money from the content providers and the recordable user market.

Originally Posted by Wile_E
Instead, for PC, create a different wavelength CD drive that wouldn't play regular CD's and DVD's. So people could only use it for data backup and games. Then people could only play CD/DVD on standalone decks.
Of course though, regular CD's are not encrypted to begin with, so someone would've found a way to get it into the computer, even if the drive could'nt read it.
Hardware venders would like to put as little money into the players, to make money in the mass volume, low margin, highly competitive market.

Content providers would love the idea of read-only every things player like Vinyl record, and film. That spell is broken after casette and VCR. But then the Billion dollars home market will never happened. They are just try to squeeze as much for themselves where they have no control.

So far, there are no copy-proof format. Some formats just don't have enough interest to crack, likes SACD.