[plug] Open source DVD playback

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, John Knight wrote:
> > This is just an idea of mine, but why don't the 'DVD standard people'
> > release a closed source, executable decryption programme?

> By only licensing the decryption code to people who pay a license fee and
> sign a contract, they are able to:
> a) receive MORE money via the licensing fees
> b) ensure that those players that are created are written so that people
>    cannot fast forward past the advertising, and cannot export the stream
>    to disk in another format (such as divx) easily.

  c) sell at different prices and possibly different conditions into
     different markets, by preventing discs bought in one region from
     being played in another.

-Greg