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Oh, that's certainly the case in the USA. I would have thought film
archives or industry-helped places would get the raw goods - an
un-CSS'ed DVD would be easy to get a copy of, despite the poorer
quality for archival purposes.<br>
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Hopefully we'll see the DMCA change, although who knows, that
"International piracy law" stuff thats so secret looks like it might
impact worse.<br>
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<div>And the question "what is worth preserving from whatever
standpoint", well, tough call. Cut film, deleted scenes, alternative
angles and shots - knowing how the editing, filming, B-reels, outtakes,
repeated shots, storyboard shoots, test shots, location finding, film
dailys, camera setup and repeated takes all went is, for those
interested in making films, and critics too, I am sure is highly useful
if available - although a massive amount of material to store raw. At
least as you said with DVD's and bonus content, this is being retained
more often. Possibly one way around that is to not store it as perfect
quality, which can easily lower it into GB's instead of TB's. :)<br>
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Bad news on commercial video DVDs. They use CSS (Content Scrambling
System) to encrypt content as a technological protection measure. It
is easily defeated by a variety of existing tools, BUT, there is no
exemption for defeating CSS under the DMCA in effect at the moment.
Any library copying a DVD for preservation purposes is violating the
law. So, the only thing you can do if a copy you own goes bad is buy
another one. If there isn't one to buy ... tough luck. Yet another
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