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to: Gary Britt
from: John Beckett
date: 2007-04-11 22:04:20
subject: Re: Macrovision DRM + DVD movie + PC = `Macrovision distribution fail

From: John Beckett 

Gary Britt  wrote in message
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> Thought of that.  Tried it.  It didn't work.  The DVD was encoded with some
> crap that wouldn't decode if the DVD was being played on a PC by anything
> other than *their* DVD player.  Apparently it was coded in such a way as to
> determine if the DVD was being played by a player (not a PC) and work with a
> player but not on a PC (unless being played by *their* player).

Weird - I don't understand how any of this stuff works.

John

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