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images/news/mafiaa.jpgCommercial video download sites like CinemaNow and the iTunes Store will soon have the option of allowing customers to burn copies of downloaded movies to DVDs that will playback in standard DVD players, thanks to an amendment recently approved by the DVD Copy Control Association.
To date, movies bought from online services could not be burned to the venerable commercial DVD format because of legal restrictions. The ubiquitous commercial DVD format is "protected" against copying by an encryption system known as CSS, and the DVD Copy Control Association has been reluctant to let consumers gain access to the CSS technology needed to make movies compatible for DVD players.
Ars Technica
To date, movies bought from online services could not be burned to the venerable commercial DVD format because of legal restrictions. The ubiquitous commercial DVD format is "protected" against copying by an encryption system known as CSS, and the DVD Copy Control Association has been reluctant to let consumers gain access to the CSS technology needed to make movies compatible for DVD players.
Ars Technica
