New Copy Protection - RFID!

[Marco33]

Reminds me of the Divx thing a couple of years ago.

But the dvd for $5 and every time you watched it you would get charged via phone line.

That'll work.

[SilverBlade]

When will hollywood learn? any copy protection scheme they come up with is either too restricting, invades peoples privacy, is waaay to invasive, or it is broken within a year.

You think with all of the money they have they can afford some common sense. Anything that can be played can be copied, if it can't be copied it won't sell. If it doesn't sell, the money spent on research is wasted.

[Nilfennasion]

veryone could just settle on one password - like "EAT SHIT, HOLLYWOOD". Then we could buy, view, sell, trade, or whatever, to our hearts content.

I'm up for that. It conveys exactly the sentiment I want, too.

[pyscrow]

The system would require consumers to buy new DVD players with RFID readers.

Like thats gunna happen!

[handyguy]

Someone could just point a dvd camcorder at the tv screen & make a copy. Easy to get around.

[EvilWizardGlick]

Once again the point of all this is Social Engineering. It only takes one generation to accept this.
Is anyone scared of ONSTAR?
If this is incorporated in every next gen dvdplayer to hit the market, will consumers not buy them?
Wake up and see the invasive technology as part of a much larger agenda.

[ebenton]

when the DVD was popped into a specially equipped DVD player

What would happen with all the existing DVD players? Oh well, a new one only costs about $40 nowadays, plus whatever the added cost for this new technology would be.

You could use your old DVD player for all of your old DVDs and a new one for all of the new DVDs.

Oh yeah, but what about the existing computer DVD-ROMs and DVD burners? I guess those don't cost too much to replace, either.

What about automobile DVD players?

What about devices that play both DVDs and CDs? Like almost all of the existing DVD players? They aren't going to do this for CDs, too, are they? If they don't, then you would have to keep your old DVD player just so you could listen to your CDs. Or maybe they could do this with CDs, too, and the RIAA would get satisfaction along with the MPAA, at the expense of the consumer.

But what about DVD players that are also SACD and DVD-Audio players? Those wouldn't be very cheap to replace.

What about portable DVD players, would those also be affected? Would the RFID technology cause any problems on airplanes, so that the FAA would ban them. Then you wouldn't be able to watch any movies on the plane, either on your laptop or your portable player. Maybe the places that want to rent you a DVD player and a DVD at the airport could get use the non-RFID players and disks so you could only rent theirs. They could make a lot of money that way.

There are lots of ways to make money with this. It's just that we the consumers would have to pay for it.

This is all crap. It will never happen.

[spiderman2k1]

If this ever happened I would stop buying DVD's. I would just record my movies from pay-preview and movie channels.

[akrako1]

If this ever happened I would stop buying DVD's. I would just record my movies from pay-preview and movie channels.

You may not even be able to do such things in the future. It seems Sky Digital has begun blocking DVD Recorders from their services. It's just a matter of time before more follow suit - especially for pay-per-view.

Read more at:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=269029

[Bjs]

All to easy to bypass any trick they come up with .

Besides it would be ruled ilegal in australia due to our privacy acts which rule against the collection of data on individuals by any form , due to the nature that not everybody understands how this collected information is used .

Ie , the store owner "tell's" you your fingerprint scan is removed from the system ...

You only have their word for that , and its a great way to end up on junk mail lists from thousands of companies of whom you have never dealt with in your entire life .

In order for legislation for this to be pass here in australia to happen , you would need an army of lawyers to devote their free time to every shopper who buys such products , just so that the buyer is made "exactly" aware of what this process is and what takes place , and that every body involved dose the right thing by the law as expected .

I'll be the first person too start sueing companies , if I get any junk mail related to anything I buy , its an invasion of privacy , clear and cut .

[kicko]

this is way too much just to stop some dvd copy junk. i have my finger(print) ready

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[ofbarea]

dumb dumb dumb

how could it possibly catch on?
(don't answer that)

The technology could catch in other areas, like guns.