actually, dvd's are great for backing up data, they are as cheap as cd's once were and doubtless will continue to come down.
oh, and for copying movies, there is already software to do it digitally and even edit them, i.e. get rid of the stupid menu games and noise (particularly on dvd's with a tv series, it's nice if they just play one after the other and don't force you to listen/watch garbage the people who put together the dvd thought would impress you but is really just annoying and slows things down and makes them less convenient). also, it's actually the apple dvd driver that makes it hard to copy, by detecting copying as opposed to access by a player application. on earlier versions of os 9 many dvd's could be copied or saved on the hard drive and played from their! hollywood has pressured apple. i know at least one federal court has even upheld the right of parents to edit a dvd for content and produce a version for their kids that they think is less offensive! of course there are other court rulings that are more stupid. that's what happens when the legal system is faced with technology that most judges don't understand at all and are completely clueless about. /ranton more stupid copy protection that inconveniences the end user and doesn't prevent large scale counterfeiting. i also have the data on their "encryption" (really far too strong a term for it) that the morons used and thought was so clever, actually they would have been better off using something off the shelf written by people who understand encryption and copy protection, the scheme is just really ugly but not that hard to hack. obviously people in hollywood watch too many movies and think they know more about encryption than they do and think that it's more magical than it is. morons. not to mention the stupid macrovision stuff, which isn't on the disk but which the player is told to add to the otherwise perfect video signal and which does degrade the picture and make routing the signal a problem for many monitors and tv sets, and that too can be turned off with a hardware hack that's very simple on most players (on some you can actually just cut the right trace on the circuit board!). yeah, another example of idiots with lawyers harassing people for something that's completely legal and legit and doesn't threaten their intellectual property while not deterring the large scale duplication at all. morons. "GDB-B&W-X.3.5" wrote: ------- > I don't know Jack, might be worth slightly more! :-) I'm sure I will > get a DVD burner sometime in the future, but my only real reason to do > so would be to copy my collection of commercial VHS tapes to DVD's and > I'm told it's not possible because of the copy protection. So really > the only interest to me here would be the speed increase. Just how > significant is would it be on my machine? --------- -- <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm> proof that the U.S. media is now state controlled! Ask your' local tv station why the hell they aren't airing the news any more! Our system of government requires an informed public, with their eyes open. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
