Posted by Alpha on 09/25/05 19:01

"Allan" <Spamstillsucks@buffyandkantica22arebrianlamb.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:10:03 -0700, "Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote:
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>>"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
>>news:MPG.1d9f8c3d1d1d06c9989ffc@news.nabs.net...
>>> Howard (stile99@email.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>>>> "Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote in
>>>> news:11jb8eg2oulojf3@corp.supernews.com:
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>>>> > You are wrong.
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>>>> Time will prove me right.
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>>> If that turns out to be the case, it will merely be because the system
>>> chosen turns out to be as weak as CSS.
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>>It is not a weak structure at all. If there is a crack, the codes can be
>>changed on the fly by internet connection. Further, if devices fail to
>>comply, they are disabled...you have to take them in for repair.
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> All this discursion is based upon the assumption that new HD machines
> will have to be tied to the Internet??? Now that is just foolish.

That is what Sony et al. Blu Ray as well as Hd DVD have agreed to in order
to obtain alliances with Hollywood content providers. It is a done deal.


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> "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
> because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable
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> -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free
> time."
> - Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

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