Camcorder pirates still having effect on the movie industry

The idea is that a camcorder operated surreptitiously in a theater would unavoidably capture the watermark and pass it on to any DVD burned from that copy. If a DVD player detected the mark, it would refuse to play the disc. Hardware makers, not surprisingly, are less than keen on the idea. While they’ve accepted playback control for next-generation formats, they have no interest in going back and retrofitting the older format when margins on standard-definition DVD players are already paper thin. To sweeten the pot, the studios have offered to drop the requirement that hardware makers implement region coding in future DVD players. The irony there is that region coding is a system the studios insisted on to protect the international theatrical window. Now, they’re willing to forgo it in order to protect the domestic window. Source: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12793