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Hope this question fits in this forum, I am a newbee,
For watching DVDs, I only have 2 players, a Pioneer b urner in my desktop and a DVD-rom in my laptop.
That is how I watch movies. That's just the way it is.
I was reading the fine print on an smaller online DVD rental place, it's one of those places that edit DVD movies to 'clean' them up, then produce a burned copy. That edited burned copy is what they send out to subscribers.
Reading the fine print, there is an ugly threatening warning that they use some kind of 'fingerprint' technology on their copies that allows them to detect if that copy has been subsequently copied.
My questions are:
1. Does such technology exist, or is that a bluff?
2. What if someone watches the DVD in a computer that only has a burner, no distinction could possibly be made between 'watching' and 'copying' the movie, since the computer reads the data either way.
If such technology exists, then it would mean that you could not even watch a movie in a burner drive - or you would be accuced of copying the movie even though you were just watching it.
3. What if you watch the movie in a dvd-rom drive, how to tell if you were in fact just watching the movie, or infact ripping it to the hard drive - since the process is the same? So if such a thing exists, you're out of luck unless you have a stand alone player?
Has anyone ever heard of this kind of 'copy protection'? Is it for real?
It's really got my curiosity going. Can't seem to find anything current about it on google or yahoo, so I suspect that they are blowing smoke up somewhere. But, maybe not......
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