Imagine this: you just get back from the store where you bought the newest summer hit on DVD and you pop it into your Media Center PVR only to find out that it won't play. Why is that?It may have to do with the fact that a company called ProtectDisc has released a copy protection dubbed Protect DVD-Video which actually will not allow PCs (and PC based PVRs for that matter) to read the DVD in question, regardless of the fact that it is an original disc.
To make a long story short, the copy protection fools Windows into believing that IFO file on the DVD (which contains all of the entry information for the chapters, subtitles and audio) is 0 bytes long and therefore invalid.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has a blog post on this over at ZDNet which mentions that there is already a work around for this, but that is beside the point. The real issue at hand is why is it that as legal owners of the product, we are disallowed from watching it on devices that we own?
This seems like just one more reason to hate DRM.
