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Notability?
While I don't doubt the quality of this entry, I think we can simply get rid of the article and link to the one at Wikipedia. After all, we don't have articles on things like "television", etc. Thoughts? -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 07:18, 5 March 2008 (CST)
- I also don't think this is notable. Our article on the WGA strike aims primarily to document how it affected BSG, so that's different. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 07:55, 5 March 2008 (CST)
- Thirded. This has no direct relevance and a link to Wikipedia will do fine. -- Serenity 08:37, 5 March 2008 (CST)
- But this article on the Defectivebydesign aims primarily to document how it targeted the BSG DVDs for DRM elimination through the Amazon.com tagging feature. The reason is that the recently-released BSG HD DVDs are encrypted with Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes, the Advanced Access Content System, which made them "defective by design", and prevents people from copying rightful owned content (a practice believed to be under fair use). The newly-released DVDs are encrypted with the same DRM schemes also. Please see Tagging Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies on Amazon.com forums for more information.
- The notes on the DVD pages - with a link to the WP article maybe - are enough to get that across though. And even that is pushing it a little bit, since it's basically an ad for that site instead of just neutrally noting that they have DRM. -- Serenity 13:35, 5 March 2008 (CST)
- But this article on the Defectivebydesign aims primarily to document how it targeted the BSG DVDs for DRM elimination through the Amazon.com tagging feature. The reason is that the recently-released BSG HD DVDs are encrypted with Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes, the Advanced Access Content System, which made them "defective by design", and prevents people from copying rightful owned content (a practice believed to be under fair use). The newly-released DVDs are encrypted with the same DRM schemes also. Please see Tagging Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies on Amazon.com forums for more information.
- Also, the broadcast flag is another DRM scheme, and is used to protect BSG while airing. Starkiller 13:32, 5 March 2008 (CST)
- DRM protections on DVDs are nothing new. The old, allegedly "lo-def" DVDs all have CSS and region coding, but we don't have an article on CSS. Frankly, this article does not belong on Battlestar Wiki. Should this be noted? Probably. But in the article for the HD-DVD, not as a separate article. And a simple link to Wikipedia on this subject would suffice. Sorry. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 14:30, 5 March 2008 (CST)
- DRM protections on HD DVDs (the HD DVD version of Battlestar Galactica Season 1) are based on Advanced Access Content System, and restrict what people can do with BSG. But most recently DVDs have adopted the new standard for content distribution and digital rights management, intended to restrict access to and its copying. Starkiller 23:15, 5 March 2008 (CST)
Getting back to the subject, there's nothing here that can't be (or isn't already) covered by the Wikipedia article. Frankly, this isn't something unique to BSG, but unique to HD DVDs and video downloads, and thus doesn't deserve an article here. (It also reads like a promotional cum FUD piece, unfortunately.) -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 23:29, 5 March 2008 (CST)
- Concur as well, with the note that the topic hardly requires a redirect due to its non sequitur notability. Deleted article, this page is now archived. --Spencerian 10:39, 6 March 2008 (CST)