heystoopid used our news submit to tell us: "Previously, I
submitted an
article about the arrest of a Melbourne resident, who sold illegal copies of
a variety of DVD"s at various local Sunday markets in this fair city. It seems
that the inquirer chose to make a pun, about the shredding, strangely look at
the comment about the supposed changes to security encryption of DVD's, I find
that most intriguing, since when has DECCS been upgraded?"
technologies to prevent the copying of their films but criminals were cracking them just as fast.According to Associated Press, Commander Terry Perton of Victoria Police stood smiling at the bottom of the conveyor belt as hundreds of dodgy copies of Shrek, Nemo and American Pie 2 shattered into splinters. He told Associated Press that it was very pleasing to think that there"s $1.3 million of pirated DVDs being shredded and that"s $1.3 million that hasn"t been put in the hands of crooks. |
It seems that the industry also makes use of the general
non-knowlegde of journalists when it comes to technical subjects. We have seen
many cases where journalists have helped spreading information
like; illegal software would be often infected with virusses or
could make your computer malfunction.
In this case they seem to be
communicating that DVD publishers are trying to develop new technologies to
protect their content while movie copy protections are hardly find their
way to the market.
Source: TheInquirer.net
