Posted by Bill's News on 01/07/08 00:35

"willbill" <trek@worldwide.net> wrote in message
news:flp4ot02d0e@enews2.newsguy.com...
> Gary Morrison wrote:
>
>> willbill wrote:
>
>>> imho, BD has too many problems to
>>> become the HD standard
>
>> What problems?
>
>
> <smiling>
>
> you really don't know?
>
> i mean, google shows 1,340 n/g posts
> by you
>
> i only looked at the 1st couple of pages,
> but a lot of it is various video related
> newsgroups. :)
>
> me? i'm new to this
>
> from my long computer experience
> (IBM mainframe, UNIX, and PC networking)
> this looks like a repeat of the PC s/w copy
> protection wars that were largely fought thru
> the 80's and early 90's
>
> the one's that focused on copy protection are
> now 99+% dead
>
> Gates had/has a brain on this, but it is clear
> to me that Warner does not
>
> bill


Copy protection which meets consumer expectations is what most
software vendors have tried to implement, after the debacle to
which you refer. Sadly, even then there are individuals who
fear that every one of their customers will steal from them,
given the slightest chance. While doing some work for a medium
sized facility near Philadelphia back around the turn of the
century, one of their PCs had a battery failure. At the next
power on, when the date reset to the anniversary of Bill Gates
first non-solo sexual experience, the dongle attached to it, in
order to run the proprietary software loaded, quietly fried
itself. No one knew of this "security feature," including the
first 4 or 5 reps at the software company to whom I spoke.
Finally, an old timer in their shop remembered this and
authorized replacement of the dongle at no charge. But catch
this, he then said: if this happens again, your company will
have to pay full purchase price!

Since the application ran on somewhat more than 100 PCs there,
we instituted an immediate and annual battery replacement
program. And, of course, called the lawyers;-0)

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