Good for them. Macro protection sucks.
ok... actually it's use is understandable, and you can only really tell that it is there on VHS tapes. But I still can't picture anyone who would try to copy a DVD to VHS or their hard drive, see that it's copy protected, and then decide to
buy the movie instead.
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The new Superbit DVDs, which deliver stunning picture quality, are marked "Warning: This disc is copy protected". But this message does not please Macrovision, who believe it may lead people to think that Macrovision does not work. "We are investigating this," says a spokesman.
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Macrovision doesn't really have anything to be angry about. They're name isn't mentioned anywhere on the packaging or discs. The only people who they should be concerned about questioning Macrovision's quality are the studios -- but they already use Macrovision so they already know that it works
just fine. Once again:
It also strikes me as a tad bit strange that Columbia would throw out copy protection, yet they are probably the number one studio when it comes to
region coding. They go all out on making sure no one can watch a lot of their discs on region free players, but copy protection isn't that big of a deal to them?
It seems like copy protection would be the more important feature, between the two, to stick with.