Posted by Justin on 10/03/05 04:45

Alpha wrote on [Sun, 2 Oct 2005 21:06:19 -0700]:
>
> "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).

Yes, because we all know that things like broadcast flags can't be
bypassed.

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