Re: Why Sony Will Die


"Karyudo" <karyudo_usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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?


Those WMV HD discs from the company that markets the Terminator disc have
pretty specific instructions included about how to play the discs. They
were/are a specialty item that allowed for HD playback on a computer long
before any other company had a marketable HD optical disc solution. The disc
also included a SD version of the movie playable in ANY DVD player computer
or otherwise. Commercial Blue Ray and HD-DVD solutions will operate in a
different way and you won't be able to play them in any fricken player you
choose...you will need a Blue Ray or HD-DVD player. To have expected the
Terminator WMV-HD disc to play in any player you choose you must have not
read the box nor did you have an understanding of the specialty nature of
those discs. It's like saying you want the IMAX film to play in the 35mm
projector at your local cinema.




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.

It did this because you attempted to play it with the wrong player (WMP)
which attempted to play it but could not because the company that issued the
disc has it's own player that it wants you to use.

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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