Posted by Alpha on 10/03/05 04:06

"Derek Janssen" <djanss@nospam.charter.net> wrote in message
news:Ug00f.3716$ES.2124@fe07.lga...
> franky wrote:
>>>
>> http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?Microsoft%20invents%20a%20%E2%80%98one-play%20only%E2%80%99%20DVD%20to%20combat%20Hollywood%20piracy&StoryID=B7480068-F1F6-4C7B-A7A5-EEFCED0320CB&SectionID=F3B76EF0-7991-4389-B72E-D07EB5AA1CEE
>>
>>>(Geez, what, does this idea keep getting tossed from corporation to
>>>corporation like the Hellraiser cube?...)
>>
>> don't you mean the *cube* cube?
>
> No, I mean:
> "What's your pleasure, sir?"
> "I want it all: Disposable movie sales...Guaranteed pay-per-view...Never
> having to worry about rental income again."
> "Many companies have lost their shirts over it, sir--Are you willing to
> give everything?"
> "I don't care--I want to be the disposable-disk company."
> "Then the disks are *yours*, sir."
> <exit>
> "...They always were."
>
> Derek Janssen (is it a bad thing to paraphrase this from memory?)
> djanss@charter.net

Well add to this:

--Law suits from CSS on media server hardware manufacturers....no serving
movies within the home.

--2008 as the end of DVD recording and Tivo for most material (broadcast
flags for copying become the norm).

--HD such as Blu Ray requiring internet connections.


They sure don't give up the idea that we only get to temporarily borrow the
viewing of a movie.

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