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I'll say no more except to be touched by your faith in the perfection of disk duplicating equipment.

You work from an invalid proposition. Because a copy plays doesn't mean it's perfect. It plays because whatever flaws or errors exist aren't fatal -- at least on the particular playback equipment. As we all know, some disks will stop dead on one machine and play perfectly on another. It's all in...

If they're so accurate and don't make any mistakes, how come we get misreads, skips, stalls and "disk unreadable" messages even with professionally glass-mastered CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays? Reason: Because nothing made by man is perfect. The reader, writer or media (probably all three) will...

In theory, yes, but nothing copies every bit correctly. It remains true that with every generation, the product is degraded -- not as much as analog to be sure, but nothing made by man will copy perfectly. Some bits won't come through correctly at every stage, and even on a digital copy you have...

As far as "lock picking or brute force cracking methods" being necessary, it ain't necessarily so, as Ira Gershwin once wrote. I have three DVDs that I dubbed from my own (legit) VHS copies, and it wasn't difficult to bypass the copy protection at all. All you need is a computer with an analog...

My DVD purchases are mainly television, and Blu-ray is mainly catalog (which explains why my BD buys dragged for quite a while). My BD purchasing has picked up in pace recently because of a catalog flurry (Superman, 1969 True Grit, The Big Country, Quigley, etc.), but when it comes to current...