Seems to me it would be trival
to write a program that captures a video as it's being played on another media player, and saves the result without rights protection. Not sure how DRM is supposed to survive that.
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_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences,
Sat 10 Sep 2005, 2:12,
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indeed.
the thing is the bbc are working on their own video codec, Dirak, which is also open source. It is interesting to see how this pans out.
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MrA,
Sat 10 Sep 2005, 2:15,
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