If the "label" company's could master and duplicate the so called "bad press" discs, they would beat us!! DVD Shrink, AnyDVD, Dvdfab. etc etc. Wouldn't matter what program you used, if its a "bad press" it can't be copied,but will always play flawlessly in our home dvd players, just can't copy them.
Just an observation.
dana0069
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Well, I personally have had only one experience with a bad press, played perfect on my dvd player, but wouldn't copy for the life of me, xchanged it for a new one...bingo..shrink only!
But think about it, encryptions on discs are written using logic, we use programs that de-crypt those discs using logic. If a bad press consists of ramdom..don't make any sense errors, then there ain't a program out there, thats gonna help copy it, logically speaking of course.
Anyway to get back to your question..I've read many people writting in saying they can't copy a disc that everybody else is having no trouble with at all, they say it plays fine, but just can't copy it. The usual fix for this is exchange it for another one, you probaly got a bad press. And whooh-lah, problem solved!
You make a good point and this method is already in use with video games. The movie indudtry could always make it tougher but someone will always find a way just like someone figured out the difficult encryption scheme used with video game disc. Plus they make more money insuring each movie against pirating. Yep they already factor it in, anticipating the loss in sales due to pirating and it pays big. Hey as long as blank disc are sold, along with DVD burners and legal software that supports so called illegal decrypting software, people, that's right people young & old of all denominations, and for all kinds of reasons will back up movies. There's too much money being made on the supplies. Soon it will be seen as a big of a deal as recording to cassette. The DVD manufacturing companies will offer kick backs to the movie companies and the show will go on. What do you make of the recent rash of future release VTS files found on torrent sites. That's right, menus, speacial features and all in tact. I says the culprit is websites who now specialize and make available new movie releases normally found on DVD downloadable for rent and sale. No doubt it's an inside job. And with the very short in-theater turn around time of 2 to 3 months. Newly released movies to download I think is a bad idea.
My point is that a faulty press that results in a corrupted disc can choke a DVD player trying to read it. Your statement that these discs always play flawlessly just isn't correct.
maybe the errors on the bad press discs were in the extras or something that you didnt watch, i have never had a bad press so can't really comment. (this is just a thought i had)
there was a post on here once that the best copy protection is to use memorex discs as once you have made a back up the pc will never read it again as it is such poor media (can't remember who posted it, but i thought it was funny) maybe the big studios should just buy memorex LOL :-)
Regardless of how sharp "the companies or Hollywood" encrypted the protections, there will always be "engines" out there that can decrypt the protections flawlessly -- it's just a matter of time only.
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