Macrovision Targets DVD Piracy With RipGuard

And from the "how long do you think it will be before it's cracked?" department, here's this tidbit. What upsets me is that the honest people who just want to back-up their DVD's are denied the right to do so. It is as if they are turned into criminals along with the folks who are making copies to sell or to mass share.

No copy protection scheme that I know of has ever fully or permanently protected the content. I doubt that this one will either. All it will do is frustrate legitimate, traditional fair use acitivites and make a lot of consumers angry in the process. Of course content owners have a right to protect their content any way they want, too; but at best this be an inconvenience to their honest customers, and will do nothing to stop their dishonest customers.