In Reply to: You still don't understand posted by David Smith on June 21, 2012 at 07:12:38:
Even with the sophisticated encryption system now being used with HD DVD and Blu-ray, hackers are hard at work trying to beat the system. But the industry doesn't have to defeat the hackers completely, which might be a nearly impossible task. They just have to slow them down.
I remember discovering as a kid that not only could I make my own cassette tapes of LPs and radio broadcasts, they were vastly superior to the far more expensive commercial cassettes. (I'm guessing you figured that out, too.) I didn't want to cheat, but I did want and felt I deserved the best possible product. A lot of us became home tapers until the industry came up with something much better than the cassette -- the CD. After that, my copying days pretty much ended, though the counterfeit CD factories in China were just getting started.
Kids today aren't much different, nor are the pirates. The industry can and will come up with something better than iTunes, and kids will buy it the way we bought CDs. The hackers will try to keep hacking, but high quality, reasonably priced, legal products will sell.
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Follow Ups
- I do understand. - rbolaw 08:43:49 06/21/12 (4)
- No encryption-beating necessary - David Smith 09:14:16 06/21/12 (3)
- RE: No encryption-beating necessary - rbolaw 11:34:27 06/21/12 (2)
- RE: No encryption-beating necessary - David Smith 12:14:19 06/21/12 (1)
- RE: No encryption-beating necessary - GEO 09:00:32 06/22/12 (0)