[streaming] Re: digital copyright protection

[Christophe Massiot]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003, Reini Urban wrote:

> We are internet service provider and want to use VLS/VLS as pay-per-view 
> solution. The major hollywood studios make troubles because of fear of 
> unauthorized recording and re-distributions.
> Having the server and client sources would make it relatively easy to 
> add such a scheme.

But since the sources are available and under the GPL, anyone could
patch the source to get the clean MPEG stream. So I guess your copy-
protection scheme wouldn't work.

> And maybe persuade the studios to get the current theatrical releases 
> before DVD release.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.
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