> Recently, I've been watching lots of New Yorker Films videotapes to prepare > for a course I'm teaching in the fall. I've noticed that many, if not > most, of such tapes available at my local video store wear a label claiming > they've been copy protected with the "Macrovision process." > > Now, call me a criminal, but today I decided to try to make a copy of one > of their tapes anyway (Godard's VIVRE SA VIE). Mysteriously, I had > absolutely no problem. > > Can anyone shed light on this? This has really aroused my curiosity as to the > nature of the relationship between copyguard companies and tape > distributors. It would seem that the former would have a strong incentive > to insure that a tape has *actually been encoded with a particular > protection mechanism* if it wears such a label, wouldn't it? Or, is it more > likely that the video store itself is attaching the labels for some reason? > Is this common? > > More generally, does anyone know technical details about how these things > actually work (beyond the obvious, I mean)? > > Rich Cante > Worcester State College > ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]