Um, guys, you don't send them anything. Their inspectors have the right to come to your place of business between 8 am and 6 pm Monday through Friday or any other time that you conduct your business. They can come one time in each 4 month period. They may photocopy any records they like based on the fact that they might be in question. You do NOT have to have a paper copy -- electronic hard copies are acceptable. If one company can be in compliance, especially a small one, then that pretty much will satisfy the small business act provisions well enough for someone to be dragged into court to set a precedent.
This isnt about DVDs that are sold and shipped, this is about digitally transmitted content.
As for digital rights management, there's nothing proprietary or patented about it that would exclude its use by the majority. There is DRM, which is a Microsoft product, and which MS freely licenses the development tools at the moment for -- mind you someone has to pay for dev using those tools; there is DIVX, which is a competitor, and both Real and Quicktime have the potential to allow someone to comply, for video at least.
Images, that's a kicker, but there's always something going on to keep things interesting.
Your comment about this industry always being safe as usual is interesting Drav -- since I've moved to LA, I spend a lot of time in the Valley with the so-called 'video' crowd. And they haven't forgotten the indictments, and in some cases, jail time, that occurred during the Meese Commission.
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