Posted by Alpha on 09/25/05 21:34

"Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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> "Mark Jones" <noemail@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>> Alpha wrote:
>>> I wish the world would understand. Soon, all media will be delivered
>>> on a pay per play basis. All. All. ALL
>>>
>>> No property rights.
>>>
>>> No fair use.
>>
>> Are the movie companies really this stupid?
>>
>> They are earning a lot of money from the sales of DVDs and
>> from what you are saying, it still isn't enough money for them.
>> They stand a very good chance of destroying this market
>> if they make it difficult or too expensive for people to view
>> a movie at home or anywhere they choose.
>>
>> Media options are becoming more portable all of the time
>> and now you indicate that they want to tie this new system
>> to an internet connection. This will drastically reduce the
>> number of people will to buy into the new format. I have
>> 2 HDTVs and I do not want a system that has to phone
>> home when I want to watch a movie. They can keep their
>> players and HD movies if they do this.


I will also mention that this month, the companies that market the copy
protection such as CSS on DVD have launched lawsuits against companies that
make media servers...those are computer based servers that feed video to a
home network with more than one TV. In fact, one media server company
*paid the licensing fee* to CSS and was told that it could only use the
license to *disable its server* by using the copyprotection (in other words
use the licensed technology to stop the server from working) .. the media
server could not circumvent DVD copy protection and distribute bought media
to more than one TV. The case is pending.

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