Quoting from Movie Industry Sues More DVD Chip Makers on Piracy:
"The CSS license pact has aided the success of DVDs because it has provided protection against illegal copying to copyright owners of movies, television shows and other content sold on DVD."
Gimme a break! DVD became successful because:
- easy to navigate
- higher quality
- marketing, marketing and marketing (Movies on VHS were never displayed as prominently as DVD Movies today in record stores and electronics stores)
It has absolutely nothing to do with copy protection, which has been available on VHS long time ago! Anyone interested in "illegally copying" DVD enough would have found out how to break the so-called protection anyway.
[Update] Let's face it: copy-protection is made to be broken. Here is another example: How to Un-DRM your Un-DRM'd iTunes 4.6 Songs
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