Oh, well, I am.
--- In [email protected], Mike Boom <boom@...> wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, sometimes a little social engineering can help
> provide copy protection.
>
> I used to sell trip videos on a live-aboard dive boat in Fiji: I'd
> shoot for a week or so and put together a video at the end of each
> charter to sell to 18 possible passengers on board. The trip DVD cost
> US$95, and if you look at it as just a $95 DVD, that seems pretty steep.
>
> I always told everyone at the beginning of the charter that I'd be
> providing custom video service for the group. For anyone who wanted
> to take advantage of the service, it was $95, and I'd deliver the
> final product on DVD. That way it didn't seem like it was just an
> expensive DVD, and people were a little less likely to cheat by duplicating
> it.
>
> I also had a trip video viewing on the last night aboard as we were
> steaming into port, usually after dinner when people were lively and
> had knocked back a few beers. We all had a good time, and I took
> orders for the video just after the viewing when people were jazzed about it.
>
> I had pretty good luck for the most part, although occasionally just
> one person in a large group would buy the DVD and I had a good idea
> he'd be duplicating it for the rest of them when they got back home.
>
> True DVD copy protection wouldn't have helped me much because I'd
> have to tell passengers about it before they bought, otherwise they'd
> assume they could copy and would still buy just one for a group. I'd
> lose those sales because once people left Fiji they weren't likely to
> buy another DVD. Telling people the DVDs are copy protected would
> piss enough people off that some might not buy, so I think it would
> have been a wash to copy protect my trip videos.
>
> Ah, well. I wasn't in it to make big money anyway.
>
> Mike Boom
>
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