ASK any movie executive and they’ll tell you that you can’t plug a DVD player into a DVD recorder and copy paid-for movies onto blank discs. But you can. Tests undertaken by Â鶹´«Ã½ show that an astonishing oversight has left the movie industry wide open to piracy of major films.
This year pirates are expected to make $1 billion on counterfeit movie discs, and Hollywood is taking legal action to try and stop them. Yet the studios have failed to implement a simple step that would protect their digital copyright in most of the world. At fault is the loose way in which copy-protection standards for…
