10/16 Is there a way to make movie's/animations available on the web, yet
make them un-copiable? I think real networks has a technology that
does it, but they charge, iirc. Any free one's?
\_ There's a ripper program available so, no, Real hasn't done it
either. So what you really want is the Holy Grail of copyright
protection: viewable content but no copying. Let us know when
you've come up with it; I've got some VC friends who want to talk
to you.
\_ All porn wants to be free.
\_ anything digital is copiable. once you learn to live with that, you
and your userbase will be happier. yes, you can make your own
proprietary streaming video format with your own proprietary client
that disallows saving to disk, but somebody could always reverse-
engineer it and make their own client. why do you really care?
do you really want totalitarian control over your content? I'd
personally prefer knowing that someone downloaded my movie and
thought it was good enough to keep and watch again. and plus, if
they want to watch it again, they don't eat up my bandwidth.
unless, of course, you want people to pay you each time they watch
your movie, but that's another can of worms...
\_ microsoft does not agree with you
\_ what's your point? Microsoft thinks their anti-piracy attempts
in Windows XP will help them too. Microsoft thinks that
there's a 1:1 correspondence between piracy and lost sales.
Microsoft fails to recognize that piracy helped it become a
monopoly. what do I care what Microsoft thinks?
\_ because, you, my fellow nerd, do not live in a vaccuum.
\_ he said "What do *I* care", hence the decision is
centric to him, my fellow logician.
\_ You should learn how to spell, my politically sensitive
friend.
\_ you sure? And no, it doesn't matter in this case what
MS thinks.
\_ Basic truth: If you can view it on the screen, you can record it.
\_ Really? When I do a screendump (Alt-PrtScn) in Media Player, all
I get in the clipboard are the UI, and the movie area is blank.
\_ when poster said "you" he did not mean you.
\_ It's an overlay. Just disable hardware acceleration and it'll
do all the drawing in software, and then you can capture it.
\_ Thanks! I'll try that. |
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