Re: Why Sony Will Die


"Karyudo" <karyudo_usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:47:42 -0800, "Charles Tomaras"
<tomaras@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Charles Tomaras (tomaras@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
If
you
have a problem with this you should take it up with the people who
produced
it http://www.interactual.com/ They are in no way affiliated with
Microsoft
save for having used a codec and DRM which Microsoft developed.

It's not the player that was the problem...it was the DRM system. Thus,
it's Microsoft's problem.


Microsoft sold a drm system to a company who decided out of the MYRIAD of
ways it can be implemented how they wanted to implement it. How is that
Microsoft's problem? I suppose when you buy a lock at the hardware store
it
is the lock makers fault if you decide to use it to lock a child in a
closet?

I think it might be at least partly the lock maker's fault, if they
went around advertising. "Perfect for locking a child in a closet!"

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/drm/default.mspx

Do a little reading and then get back to me about what is deceptive about
Microsoft's DRM. It's configurable to just about ANY sort of level of ease
or restriction that you want to put on it. Totally configurable. Totally in
the hands of the rights holder who implements it. Give me an example from
Microsoft's pages that is analogous to your "perfect for locking a child in
the closet" statement. In fact, if they had called their codec MHD instead
of WMHD and sold/licensed their DRM under some generic non-Microsoft name we
wouldn't even be having this exchange. It's the "anything with Microsoft's
name attached to it is bad" bias surfacing once again. You're just all pissy
because you can't get around it like you did with your Macrovision busting
boxes.


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