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Warner Appears to Drop Macrovision
Posted by Rick Jessup, October 16 10:07 AM

An interesting story coming out of the DVD industry pertaining to long time copy protection kings Macrovision and major studio Warner Brothers. TechDirt reports that The Matrix Reloaded is shipping without copy protection, this after Warner had also shipped many copies of 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' minus copy protection as a test. The test appeared to go well as all copies of 'Matrix' on DVD will be free of Macrovision.

Of course, the original test on 'Potter' got Macrovision fired up and prompted them to alter their license to say you either used their product or you didn't - no picking and choosing. Warner has appeared to choose not, saving $0.05 per DVD, but also leaving themselves open to piracy.

Granted, Macrovision hasn't stopped DVD films from propogating over the Internet so far, and perhaps Warner realized that since people were going to figure out a way to pirate regardless, the $0.05 savings per DVD were worthwhile. Good thinking.

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