"I don't disagree that there is a problem (despite the fact that the industry is indeed growing). However, these protections do NOT stop piracy. These albums will and do appear on file sharing services. A simple analog loop on mid-fi equipment will make a copy indistinguishable from the original...
I recently rented The Planet of the Apes 2001 DVD from Blockbuster (yeah, I know, don't kill me :b ) and I had some wierd problems. I have a Pioneer DVL-909, and anyway, when I played the movie once a chapter would end, it would jump back halfway to the same chapter and drop all audio and the...