Re: Why Sony Will Die

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:03:03 -0800, "Charles Tomaras"
<tomaras@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If I'm not mistaken aren't you the same Karyudo who has complained in the
past about 16:9?

I don't think so. I want to see things in OAR. I'm a little choked
when I know it's available, but it's not being supplied.

It all sounds good but the whole library thing is a rip off as well. I have
relatives who "borrow" CD's and rip every last one of them and I'm sure
there are masses of people with the original DVD XCOPY and other such DRM
beating software who do the same with DVD's. There's lots of thievery of IP
via the public library...don't kid yourself.

Better shut down libraries then! Clearly, the interests of huge
multinationals like Sony, Disney et al are being massively punished by
the existence of public libraries, so the solution is obviously to get
rid of libraries. From all accounts, libraries are running huge
surplus profits every year from their organized piracy rings, while
poor conglomerates like Sony are struggling just to stay afloat in the
face of such treacherous, coordinated attacks from the card-carrying
members of The Public Library in every city in the nation.

In fact, I have already been punished by DRM when I bought the
Terminator 2 WMV-HD disc: I still haven't been able to play it,
because although I have several players that will play WMV-HD, I
*don't* have one that can connect to Microsoft's stupid DRM server to
get a license!

FYI, Those aren't "Microsoft's" DRM servers nor does Terminator WMV-HD even
play in WMP. It has it's own application called the Interactual Player and
the DRM is administered by someone other than Microsoft. All Microsoft did
was sell a customer a codec that allows for DRM implementation.

OK, point taken. I haven't tried for a long time to get this up and
running. Fact remains, I put the disc in my drive (my RPC-1 drive,
which will all of a sudden not be usable under Vista), and despite
having several applications set up just how I like them, the content
is trying to dictate what crappy player/codec I use! It's like buying
a record, and being told that your Nakamichi turntable won't play it,
you've got to go and buy a separate RCA turntable just for this
record. Oh, and by the way, the RCA turntable needs a special
Microsoft stylus, which is not available to my geographical region.
How screwed up is that??

How about I buy the disc, I put it in any drive I want, and I play the
content that I paid to see in whatever frickin' player I choose?

At no time when one plays the Terminator WMV-HD DVD does
an application contact Microsoft.

I am quite sure that when I went to play the disc, the player went to
Microsoft to get a codec. Which it couldn't find or download or
whatever, and here I am, unable to play something I PURCHASED LEGALLY.
I can't check this at the moment, because I've lent my disc -- another
perfectly-legal action which Sony, etc., are doing their best to make
impossible -- to a friend that apparently can play it.

I'm not saying piracy is right. It's not. But neither is what the
media companies are doing "in response." They're trying to negate the
concessions that they're required to make under copyright law in order
to receive the right to their limited monopoly on marketing the
content. Copyright is not an inalienable human right; it's a contract.
Media companies are not upholding their end of the contract. DRM is
evil. End of story.
.

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