__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 01 January 2007 10:56 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Reading a DVD with VLC or mplayer is now illegal in France
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Starting tomorrow December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with
>>| CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with a
>>| software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or
>>| mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2006/12/30/reading-a-dvd-with-vlc-or-mplayer-is-now-illegal-in-france/
>>
>> Gates has recently been lobbying there, IIRC. Can France make up its mind
>> and cease to support monopolies whose sales become a prerequisite to
>> accessing content?
>>
>
> CSS is /not/ protection and never was, it is only and singularly a
> market manipulation tool, designed to prevent people from perfectly
> legitimately buying a DVD in the US and playing it in France. It's
> about restraint of trade, it's about preventing usage of what people
> have bought, it's about all kinds of things, but it's not about
> protection.
It's about making people buy media over and over and over again. Imagine
having to buy your old Beatles vinyl because they no longer play
(gramophones outlawed).
Feeding Frenzy: Digital Rights Management is really just an ecosystem for
selling our own stuff to us again and again.
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| And into this confluence of greed and shared interest strides
| Microsoft and Bill Gates promising a technical solution that
| gives every potential partner exactly what they want. Content
| owners get a chance to sell everything over again and this time
| they'll be supposedly protected from piracy. Everyone will have
| to buy a new TV with an HDMI connector as well as all new video
| and stereo components of every type, just so long as they, too,
| use strictly HDMI connections. Problems of deliberate signal
| degradation and driver horrors will make all video cards and
| most processors obsolete, so we'll have to buy all new PCs. Mr.
| Gutmann characterizes this lack of backward compatibility or any
| shred of technical elegance as suicidal on Microsoft's part when,
| in fact, it is Microsoft's best imitation of brilliance. Intel and
| AMD love it. ATI and nVidia love it. Thomson and Philips and Sony
| and Matsushita and Samsung and LG love it. Every movie studio, TV
| network, and record company loves it. The only people who don't
| love it are consumers, and neither industry nor government really
| cared much about them, ever.
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061229_001403.html
Operation Vista: An Exercise in Greed
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| At its heart, this issue is about Microsoft using its muscle
| (as opposed to superior product offering) to squeeze itself
| deeper into the security software industry. What's at stake
| is, all other concerns being unrealized as of yet, branding.
`----
http://www.darklogistic.com/2006/10/07/operation-vista-an-exercise-in-greed/
I am thinking of all these people who accumulate collections in their
iTunes/iPod 'little world'. Little do they know about what the future bears.
Even tape recorders (or a walkman) suddenly appear like the better option.
--
~~ Kind greetings and happy holidays!
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