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Re: DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Gerck)
Wed Jan 8 14:47:01 2003
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 11:26:33 -0800
From: Ed Gerck <egerck@nma.com>
To: Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
Cc: jsd@monmouth.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Nomen Nescio wrote:
> John S. Denker writes:
> > The main thing the industry really had at stake in
> > this case is the "zone locking" aka "region code"
> > system.
>
> I don't see much evidence for this. As you go on to admit, multi-region
> players are easily available overseas. You seem to be claiming that the
> industry's main goal was to protect zone locking when that is already
> being widely defeated.
>
> Isn't it about a million times more probable that the industry's main
> concern was PEOPLE RIPPING DVDS AND TRADING THE FILES?
Well, zone locking helps curb this because it *reduces* the market for each
copy. The finer the zone locking resolution, the more effort an attacker needs
to make in order to be able to trade more copies.
Cheers,
Ed Gerck
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