It seems to me like copy-protection is a big hassle to just about everybody.

Advanced Access Content System (AACS)

Don't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy?

Perhaps they should call it the "We're gonna figure out a way to screw up this Hi-Def thing even if it kills us System"?

I have an idea I'm going to patent. It's DRM for eyelids. If you do not have the proper permissions to watch "portected" content, YOUR EYES WON'T OPEN!!! I'll be RICH!!!

"portected" heh

I bet you AACS will be cracked within 3 years, but maybe sonner if the new formats are popular.

@GrayArea,

Eyelid DRM is still in beta development. There have been too many problems with people going blind. What they do instead is, change the light frequency of a movie an insignificant amount, but incredibly rapidly causing an unviewable flash.

This "Flashing" of the video causes synoptic failure and also increased electric Impulse Discharge within your brain. This causes you to become more relaxed, but at the same time, it destroys brain cells which have been accessed recently causing you to "forget" what you watched and have a hard time to recall it.

Newer experimenting is being done where the brain is temporarily neutralized. This will cause you to enter a vegetative state while watching movies in Theatre. So far it is effective on tests with lab mice, but some side effects like Nausia, loss of equilibrium, and other related side effects have occurred.

If you can get your DRM to work, then you will be so rich, that Bill Gates will wiping your arse when you are finished using the toilet!!!

JaguarGod, don't get people all excited about this newest DRM research. You forgot to mention the side effect that "they" are trying to keep on the down low.
Once you enter the vegitative state you inadvertantly lose control of your bodily functions, and more often than not, end up dropping a deuce in your shorts. Macrovision, Sony, and other DRM companys are discouraged by this, however adult diaper companys are pouring money into its research.

So? A few bucks in Sony's pocket and a turd in your drawers? Where's the down side? I'm seeing this "never get off the couch" thing as a great marketing angle!

"Ooooh look! 'Miss Congeniality' is on Starz tonight! Get my Depends and the Cheezy Poofs honey!"

LMAO GrayArea!

If there's a copy protect but I'm sure it cannot be protected forever.

This conversation is like one big pile of brain diharrea.

And so are "their" futile attempts at DRM.