{"id":559,"date":"2008-09-05T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T00:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2010-02-09T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:26:52","slug":"juno-digital-copy-lets-dig-deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"<i>Juno<\/i> &#8216;Digital Copy&#8217;, let&#8217;s dig deeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s dig a little deeper into this whole &#8216;Digital Copy&#8217; (DC) thing, discussed in the previous post.<\/p>\n<p>My brother, presently holidaying in Austria, has written to me suggesting that I &#8216;should install a Firefox or Maxthon browser and set up a proxy server to access the DC movies.&#8217; I&#8217;m prepared to go to reasonable lengths to find out the information that I need, or to explore the intricacies of some interesting piece of technology. But when it comes to using consumer orientated hardware and software, I play dumb. I try to follow the instructions as best I can. What more can you reasonably ask of the consumer? So I persevere with Internet Explorer. I don&#8217;t use proxy servers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve already seen this wonderful movie &#8230; twice! On Blu-ray. I highly recommend the movie to readers. But I have no desire to see it on a portable device. I just want to find out if a consumer can if he or she wishes to.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what is this &#8216;Digital Copy&#8217;? The disc it is on is not a DVD-Video, but a DVD ROM. That is, all it contains is a set of computer files and folders. The disc is single layer and carries 2.71GB of data. In its root directory is an &#8216;Autorun.inf&#8217; file which Windows automatically runs on inserting the disc. This in turn invokes a program called &#8216;Menu.exe&#8217;, a 3MB program which brings the menu up on your screen and manages the installation process.<\/p>\n<p>The actual video data resides in the DVDROM\/Media folder. There appear to be three copies there:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong>Juno_PC_NTSC.wmv<\/strong> <\/dt>\n<dd>1.09GB &#8212; this appears to be the Windows Media format version intended for PC viewing. <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Juno_PORT_NTSC.wmv<\/strong> <\/dt>\n<dd>0.498GB &#8212; this appears to be the Windows Media format version intended for portable device viewing. <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>FeatureMovie<\/strong> <\/dt>\n<dd>1.11GB &#8212; this file has no extension, but it&#8217;s so big it is also likely to be a video file, presumably in some format compatible with iTunes and the iPod. iTunes doesn&#8217;t pay too much attention to file names in general, so it isn&#8217;t surprising that this file doesn&#8217;t have a recognisable media extension on it. <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Since I was digging around in the contents of the disc anyway, I decided to double click on the first of these. Windows Media Player came up and sought my permission to download some necessary extensions to play the file. I granted permission. Downloads and installations occurred, and then:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/blog\/graphics\/junofail2.gif\" alt=\"Failed playing of Juno WMV\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/> I have altered that screen shot only to white out the serial number. Presumably this means that you&#8217;re only allowed to get permission to use the material on a given serial number a certain number of times, and somehow in my playing around I&#8217;ve exceeded that. But I did try to play the thing in an unconventional way, so let me restart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I Autoplay the DVD ROM to bring up the menu, then click on &#8216;Transfer Digital Copy&#8217;:<br \/>\n<img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/blog\/graphics\/junomenu.jpg\" alt=\"Juno autoplay menu\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/li>\n<li>In the box that pops up I click &#8216;TRANSFER TO WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER&#8217;:<br \/>\n<img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/blog\/graphics\/junocopy.gif\" alt=\"Juno copy manager\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/li>\n<li>In the next box that pops up:<br \/>\n<img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/blog\/graphics\/junoenterserial.jpg\" alt=\"Juno: Enter Serial\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/li>\n<li>I enter the serial number and tick the licence agreement box, then click &#8216;NEXT&#8217;:<br \/>\n<img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/blog\/graphics\/junofail3.jpg\" alt=\"Juno: Failed yet again\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Okay, see the added line of text (once again, I&#8217;ve blanked out the serial number, not that it appears to be of much use to anyone)? It says: &#8216;This asset has already been licensed.&#8217; Which I presume means, like the other one, that I&#8217;ve used up the total number of licensings allowed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So how many licenses are allowed? If only one, then I suppose my first attempt, which led to the apparent wrong-country-denial, counted as an access. What if you want to load it onto both your computer and your iPod? I shall have to ask.<\/p>\n<p>This continues my long tradition of coming unstuck on digital rights management.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, discs sold in Australia should never come a-cropper with the wrong country thing in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s dig a little deeper into this whole &#8216;Digital Copy&#8217; (DC) thing, discussed in the previous post. 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