Holding Back Progress

The Kaleidescape system is something I've read about with interest because it's just a cool idea executed well. It's basically a DVD jukebox that enables you to rip your movies to its massive array of hard drives to be streamed across a network of Kaleidescape systems in your home. Oh, and it happens to cost somewhere close to $30,000 for a system! But anyway, Hollywood being how they are these days Kaleidescape got sued because the DVD Copy Control Association is afraid that the billions of millionaires out there that own these systems will spend their days and nights ripping their NetFlix DVDs instead of discs they actually paid for. The end result is the DVD-CCA wants Kaleidescape to require that the actual disc be in the player to authenticate before allowing it to be played. Yes, they would like you to do exactly what you paid $30k NOT to do! How asinine is that?! Hollywood really needs to regroup and actually work with companies like this and figure out a way to move into the 21st century. It's bad enough they put out 3 or 4 versions of the same movie to bilk more money out of people, but when they can't even let somebody who buys what is essentially a $30,000 DVD player use it as it was intended they obviously have distorted priorities.