Does anyone know if a DVD has a unique ID label, similar to the number which is printed on each DVD and/or CD? If so, couldn't software be put in place and some provisionary ruling set forth where Kaleidescape systems would compress a table of contents of the disks (disk id number) which are currently loaded on the system and if a rental disk is found to be on the hard drive after a certain length of time, the owner could be subjected to an audit to see if they are indeed pirating DVDs by copying rental disks onto their system?
Or maybe another route could be that the system bundles the Table of Contents as suggested earlier in this message, and that the owner is required to turn in the physical disk once it has been loaded onto the system as proof of purchase, and if a system is found to have titles on it but no disc has been turned in the disk is considered to be pirated.
There's got to be a way that this system can be legal and like someone else mentioned, if you can afford to pay for this system and you also buy a disk collection (which probably costs more per disk than going out and finding a bargain price) you probably aren't going to turn around and risk legal action by copying movies you didn't buy onto your system.
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King Solomon @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM
Does anyone know if a DVD has a unique ID label, similar to the number which is printed on each DVD and/or CD? If so, couldn't software be put in place and some provisionary ruling set forth where Kaleidescape systems would compress a table of contents of the disks (disk id number) which are currently loaded on the system and if a rental disk is found to be on the hard drive after a certain length of time, the owner could be subjected to an audit to see if they are indeed pirating DVDs by copying rental disks onto their system?
Or maybe another route could be that the system bundles the Table of Contents as suggested earlier in this message, and that the owner is required to turn in the physical disk once it has been loaded onto the system as proof of purchase, and if a system is found to have titles on it but no disc has been turned in the disk is considered to be pirated.
There's got to be a way that this system can be legal and like someone else mentioned, if you can afford to pay for this system and you also buy a disk collection (which probably costs more per disk than going out and finding a bargain price) you probably aren't going to turn around and risk legal action by copying movies you didn't buy onto your system.