Is it time for DRM?

[MikeSouth]

Fuck DRM thats just a moneymaking scheme for microsoft or whoever....

Use encrypted streams instead...it's very difficult to rip..way moreso than defeating drm

and if someone would finally come up with a player that puts the users username and IP addy on a watermark on the screen...you could really cut down on piracy.

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by MikeSouth

Fuck DRM thats just a moneymaking scheme for microsoft or whoever....

Use encrypted streams instead...it's very difficult to rip..way moreso than defeating drm

and if someone would finally come up with a player that puts the users username and IP addy on a watermark on the screen...you could really cut down on piracy.

Gee Mike, something simple, direct, and without a bloated payout scheme?
Surely, you jest sir.

[tony404]

Originally Posted by MikeSouth

Fuck DRM thats just a moneymaking scheme for microsoft or whoever....

Use encrypted streams instead...it's very difficult to rip..way moreso than defeating drm

and if someone would finally come up with a player that puts the users username and IP addy on a watermark on the screen...you could really cut down on piracy.

with flash recorders its not hard to take it at all. What would stop piracy would be our industry not so quick to embrace them but its too late now. People trade music but you dont see sony running ads there. fuck avn gave AFF an award and they pretty much funded the tubes with massive ad buys.

[softball]

People trade music but you dont see sony running ads there

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by tony404

with flash recorders its not hard to take it at all. What would stop piracy would be our industry not so quick to embrace them but its too late now. People trade music but you dont see sony running ads there. fuck avn gave AFF an award and they pretty much funded the tubes with massive ad buys.

And what, pray tell, works well with flash?
Here's my problem:

I have a video vending machine, that has three screens.
See here:

EJ's Video Vending machine

It uses two mpg movies for advertising....one that uses audio (movies) and the second for various ads and such. (The third is the "bi'dness" screen.)

So, every week, I'll be rebuilding an MPG file. It would be simpler if I could rip the flash video from the movies sites, and paste them together, quick and dirty. Of course, I have premiere, so the "making" is all good. I guess I could rip them from the front of the DVDs as well. I haven't tried for a while. Wonder if they are using copy protection on the previews?

suggestions?