Copy Protection is essentially wasted investment
If you have a team of 50 people who design and develop the newest data protection system for the next video format - that leaves about 6,509,292,400 people to break that data protection system.
If people want to buy something - they'll buy it
If they want to copy it - theyll copy it
Any money invested in trying to force people to do the former instead of the later is wasted. What the industry SHOULD be doing is making the former a more attractive option - set pricing at a reasonable level and add good value with DVD Extras etc.
Doug