From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Dec 17 1998 - 02:27:42 EST
John..
good and lucid explanation..
my editorial:
hollywood 'content' providers seem to want to be a wealthy as "Pearly"
Gates who wants to be richer than god..
all endevor or risk should be rewarded.. but "How much is enough" ??
John Kim wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Jeroen Elfferich wrote:
> >
> > The fact that the movie industry is so paranoid about these
> > issues is one, but the fact that IBM sells computers that
> > let you unwillingly completely disable one of the key
> > features it sells the machines for, bothers me a lot. The
>
> IBM may not have had much choice. The record/movie industry
> got a couple laws passed requiring certain types of digital
> hardware that can be used to record/playback audio/video have
> copy protection capabilities. There's an exception clause for
> computers, but playing back DVD movies is a decidedly
> un-computerlike capability. (These laws also require a tax be
> pre-paid to these industries on all digital consumer hardware,
> to compensate them for lost revenues due to potential piracy
> by you.) That's what killed off DAT.
>
> Fun world we live in, eh? :-)
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim_at_stormhaven.org
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