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Video Business, May, 1996 by Levine, Martin
If Hollywood hopes to release movies on DVD in time for the fall hardware introduction, it probably will do so without copy protection. Although DVD hardware manufacturers and the studios have agreed to seek legislation mandating copy protection in all consumer digital-video players (VB, 3/22), trade groups representing personal-computer hardware and software manufacturers have effectively shot down that deal by opposing any law covering PCs with DVD-ROM drives.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers of America (CEMA) had planned to submit proposals, but those plans have been shelved indefinitely. The subject of legislation never came up during an April 29 meeting of the MPAA, CEMA, the Information...
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