04-05-2009, 06:07 AM
blusubaru wrote:
At least with DVD's, there has been some form of copy protection from the start - Macrovision. The thing that scrambles your picture when you try to record a DVD to VHS.
That doesn't count. It doesn't prevent access. It just makes the image look lousy when using analog outputs or recording to analog devices. It's also implemented at the player-level. If you have a player that doesn't respect Macrovision protection or which digitally enhances the image back to something watchable, Macrovision is no protection at all.
The technological control measure that gets a movie on DVD covered by the DMCA is CSS.
There's a separate provision of the DMCA for Macrovision which covers analog devices (VHS). (And if you think about it, this tells you exactly who writes our laws these days.)