Hollywood's DRM Agenda Moving Forward

risingphoenix writes "The New York Times has a story about the progress Hollywood has made putting Digtal Rights Management in the marketplace. The story focuses on what technology is currently in place; what the next moves, technically and legally, are for the industry and how consumers are being affected by Hollywoods power grab."

Speed bumps

[John Jorsett]

"We need to put in speed bumps to keep people honest," said Jack Valenti

Personally, I think Jack Valenti needs a few speed bumps on his head to knock some sense into him.

Eat This HollyWood- DeCSS Descrambler Below

[Anonymous Coward]

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# 531-byte qrpff-fast, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz
# MPEG 2 PS VOB file on stdin -> descrambled output on stdout
# arguments: title key bytes in least to most-significant order
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$ c=142;$ t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=(
$m=(11,10,116,100,1 1,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])$t^=(72, @z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16
-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12 :0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if ((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h
=5;$_=unxb24,join"",@ b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$ h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$
d=unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256| (ord$b[4])>8^($f=$t&($d>>12^ $d>>4^
$d^$d/8))>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^ $q>=8)+= $f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/p ack+/g;eval

From A Cave Somewhere In Amerika,

W00t

Re:Stop watching TV..

[Anonymous Coward]

and start reading /. that'll stop the flow... oh wait a minute, never mind

Imagine the video store of the future...

[zubernerd]

(if they're still around)
becuase they are licensing a product, to quote the story: "Instead of a product, consumers will essentially purchase licenses to use digital movies or music under certain circumstances"

A man brings up a copy of Ghostbusters VII (remember Hollywood hates taking risk, so they began to just make sequals to ancient hits) and begins to check it out.
The guy at the checkout counter asks "How many people will be viewing this?"
The man answers "None of you business"
"Well, sir, we need to know that so we can charge you a per person viewing license"
"What the fu**?
"Well, sir, remember, everytime a unlicensed viewer views a copy, they are viewing it with bin laden."

--if you don't find it funny, don't waste your points modding me down. Use your mod points to promote world peace, or something...

Re:Speed bumps

[giel]

When going to the movies or renting a movie I always create a copy using a very sofisticated on a biological base containing very obscure and obfuscated encoding mechanisms, which I can and do use to provide friends with information on subjects such as if the movie was good or whether it was crap and what it was all about.

All of it does sound so illegal, they might even be able to drag me into court for doing so...

It's just a matter of a few years and they will force you to forget what you've seen when leaving a theatre...

pay an extra fee?

[jonathanbearak]

" People who have become accustomed to recording pay-per-view and video-on-demand shows will probably still be able to, the studios say -- so long as they pay an extra fee."

As in the price of a VCR?

Re:Speed bumps

[Ig0r]

If you don't buy 7 copies of the same cd CD at a time, the terrorists have won!