[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
> Verily I say unto thee, that spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thusly:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>> How-To: Play Blu-ray and HD DVD Movie Discs in Linux
>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | At this point it's not an elegant solution, but they're getting there.
>>> | Soon, I'm sure, it will be as easy as just dropping in the disc.
>>> `----
>>
>>> http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/3737/how-to_play_blu-ray
>>
>>> Just don't do this in France or the US.
>>
>> Aye, having the AUDACITY to play your own property on your own machine.
>> The cheek of it, lock them all up, that's what I say.
>> :)
> Ah but that's where the content providers have you by the gonads. You
> don't *own* anything, you've been granted a license ... permission to
> view their content. That's all.
You own the disk you bought it on.
Even if the content on the disk doesn't belong to you, the disk is
physically your property.
> And then, in later years, when the media on which that content is stored
> has degraded to the point of being unusable, the content providers
> demand that you pay *yet again* to replace that "permission" in the form
> of new media.
And when the content finally, in 200 years time, falls out of the copyright
trap... Who's to bet they'll refuse to release the DRM codes?
:)
> But wait a minute ... didn't you already pay for permission? The money
> you spend was not for ownership of a *product*, was it? The cost of the
> physical materials was mere pennies; the vast majority of what you paid
> was for a *licence*, so how come you need to pay the *full price* for
> *replacement media*? Surely the cost the *second time around* should be
> material costs only, since you already "own" the permission to view the
> content.
They're a bunch of con artists... We've known that for decades.
It's only now in this day of digital, exact copy technology that they're
making their final death throe struggle...
> It's a scam, pure and simple. A license to print money.
Indeed.
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