AN ARTICLE in Â鶹´«Ã½ recently warned Hollywood that outside the US and Japan it is easy to bypass copy-protection for DVDs by copying movie discs to blank discs, using the home DVD recorders now appearing in high street shops around the world (1 February, p 7).
No one in the industry showed any interest. But perhaps they will wake up now. On the very day the story appeared, anti-piracy inspectors spotted the first “compilation DVDs” in a street market in Glasgow. A compilation disc is a home-recorded DVD containing several movies.
What the movie studios fail to realise…
