Quote Originally Posted by bfalls View Post
DVD copy-protection has become much more sophisticated than during the days of CSS. Everyone has their different twist on how it should be done. We get creative, the rippers break it. It's a continuous battle. If we're able to protect a big title for four weeks after it streets, the protection is a success. Even after it's broken, many times the process is so complex, only the real gear-heads are able to do it. As long as we stop the one-button simple to copy applications we've done our job.
Good to know. I had no idea that so much work is still being done to prevent DVDs from getting ripped. As you mentioned, since these new copy protection approaches skirt the edges of the DVD format specs, now I'm surprised that these incompatibilities don't crop up more often.

In the early days of the DVD format, it seemed that most of these incompatibilities came from poorly authored discs, new features (I recall DTS and dual-layered discs causing problems with a lot of players) and firmware issues. Nowadays, I never hear about these issues anymore, but obviously stuff like this still happens.