“The DVD Copy Control Association has released a statement (pdf) announcing that it will make adaptations to the Content Scramble System (CSS) used to protect DVDs. The association, made up of Hollywood studios, consumer electronics and software companies, licenses CSS to the DVD industry to protect content. The changes will allow home users to legally burn purchased movie downloads to special CSS protected DVDs, compatible with existing DVD players.”
Via Slashdot. More here.
“A film industry group is set to remove some of the procedural hurdles that prevented the legal recording of movies onto blank DVDs in a further sign that Hollywood studios are preparing to expand what consumers can do with downloadable movies,” May Wong reports for The Associated Press. “Under rule changes expected to be finalized soon by the DVD Copy Control Association, retailers could create movie jukebox kiosks with which customers can select, say, an obscure title and burn it to a DVD on the spot.”
“Online merchants, like Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes Music Store, could start to allow video downloads to be transferred onto DVDs,” Wong reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son,” “Michale P.,” and “Kendall” for the heads up.]
Okay. who else sees Steve Jobs’ hand in this?
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Definitely, the hand of Job.
Let’s just hope that Apple’s forthcoming movie service has a rental option and not just a purchase option.. I for one, do not buy movies because I rarely watch a movie more than once.
Make it easy to buy online or we will get it for free.
I HIGHLY doubt this will be integrated into iTMS or that Steve jobs had anything to do with it.
This is a hybrid distribution system that will require very specialized DVD’s and burning done in kiosks and stores.
One still has to pay the high Hollywood tax per DVD, perhaps a little less because it’s sans case and artwork.
Just try to get these specialized dvd’s cheap.
Of course the best thing the MIAA can do right now is adopt the iTMS route and later bank on Apple tighting the DRM using digital watermarking and Trusted Computing.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Okay. who else sees Steve Jobs’ hand on this?
I DO, I DO!!
PirateEbay4U is MacDude. All you gotta do is check the link he posted!
laughing my A$$ off. He just can’t help himself.
It sounds like SJ had something to do with it. But if those “CSS DVDs” turn out to be expensive or have some kind of limitation to them, then what are we to gain from this? What will Hollywood gain? Either these special DVDs give us some freedom or they don’t. If they do, Hollywood stands to make a buck from the reduced piracy. If they don’t, who will pay for developing this technology?
Yes, definately a hand Job.
I meant hand OF Jobs. You know, in it…
Dear God, Please heal Steve Jobs.
Not Bill: I don’t exist, so quit wasting your time.
Sorry to say that this is very old news. Movielink announced they had struck a deal with Hollywood studios about a month ago.
Sorry to bust the Jobs-worshipping bubble.
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