This little thread posted by TaranT in the music section about the eventual copy-protection of all CDs in the furture had me thinking:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... php?t=5971
*** would DVDs ever become "copy-protected" or should I say Un-rippable? I know there's the Macrovision thing but would there come a time when we see an official declaration of somebody announcing the creation of new DVD technology that's copy-protected, as the music industry is recently attempting to standardize?
Personally I don't think it's time for us, specifically AMV editors, to start looking for a new hobby, since it's almost a guarantee that even if such an innovation becomes a reality, somebody, somewhere will "crack the code" as it were and teach the rest of us how to outsmart those corporate fuckers. (my apologies to any CEOs out there).
I've cited on that thead my argument for the un-marketable developement of copy-protected CDs and how MP3 technology would seemingly reach an evolutionary dead-end. But what kind of argument could there be for DVDs, other than censorship, if that even applies??