“Apple’s former director of video product marketing Mike Evangelist is calling for a boycott of next-generation HD video products–including HD-DVD and Blu-ray–claiming that the industry is trying to take away ‘fair use’ from customers,” MacNN reports. “In a new blog post, Evangelist says said that the industry is moving to taking away content ownership from end-users, ‘I really want you to understand what’s going on with the video industry’s push towards HD. They are engineering a complete removal of the concept of fair use. They are setting up systems that will completely control how, when and where you can use content that you buy. Even worse, they can retroactively change the rules!'”
More info and link in the full MacNN article here.
The Inquirer also covers the story here.
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Sounds like someone has read “1984” a bit too many times…
the “trusted computing” post….
life is over, the sky is falling, blah blah blah…..
in 5…. 4… 3…. 2……..
Wow, typical idiotic first post. Conrgrats Turd.
Ignorance is bliss eh?
As long as it plays on my new touchscreen 16:9 format video iPod that I’m buying next wednesday…I’ll be happy.
Uh, I suppose ignorance is bliss concerning your ad hominem attacks without any substance.
I don’t share all his points but boycotting HD-DVD and Blu-Ray until the industry can stop being so greedy and agree on a standard is a no brainer.
both need to get out of the way of HONEST people
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i’m sick of being in their crossfire.
turd said “ad hominem”…..
heh heh, hehh hehhh hehhhh, heh heh heh
funny that his last name is Evangelist….
We now live in a world where people are assumed to be potentially guilty of future crimes, and are treated as such.
Many will hold off on the puchase anyway. Who wants to owen another Betamax?
I don’t think we have to boycott. Both of them are catering so much to Hollywood that most people will find not worth the trouble. I predict a third technology will emerge; one that didn’t seek the approval of Hollywood. Perhaps H.264 HD which is capable of being stored on a normal DVD.
This is why Apple switched to intel processors
Whatever they’ll think off to screw you, it’ll probably get hacked anyway.
Format Wars, Ultimate Hacker’s Challenge, Boycotts, The End of Hollywood?… Wait, let me get my popcorn, this is gonna be good!
Sorry, kids. This is real. Both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD have device specs that call for degrading the analog signal output. They’re definitely trying to end-run fair use, and Apple is (no surprise) in on it.
One of many articles on the subject:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060122-6027.html
Turd, I think what he meant was that it’s ignorant to suggest, at this time of all times, that it’s even possible to read 1984 too many times.
Anyway, I’ll let a couple of smart people comment on the idea of fighting the DRM Nazis:
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
— Thomas Jefferson
Those who would sacrifice freedom for temporary security deserve neither.
— Benjamin Franklin
Note that both of these concepts of freedom apply equally to free society, free markets, and fair use.
I can already see the price of time base correctors for sale on ebay GOING UP!
If it plays on a screen it can be ripped
hollywood would be much better served trying to create some new content that is actually worth watching
The 1/4 HD resolution that is apparently going to be output from analog component video ports is good enough for me. Non-interlaced 960×540 resolution is better quality than low def DVD, so looks like I’ll be able to get all the content I want off the internet for years to come.
I have an HDTV I just bought in December, and I find the stuff I download off the internet now “good enough” for me. It’s not HD, but most of it looks and sounds great! I’m in no rush to buy an HD-DVD or BluRay player any time soon. I’d rather pay under $10CDN for my DVDs than $30 for an HD movie. Just not worth it IMHO.
they will control our videos and our lives……until its hacked of course lol
“Sounds like someone has read “1984” a bit too many times…”
That’s nothing. I keep mixing up “Animal House” and “Animal Farm”.
I keep remembering something about a despotic P-I-G, PIG ! ! Splort.
Oops. So call me “deleted” in the post above.
Dang Private Browsing!
“Sounds like someone has read “1984” a bit too many times..”
If one knows anything of history and current events, they’ll realize “1984” didn’t get eliminated, just delayed by a couple of decades and a few years.
It’s only a matter of time.
However, it won’t last forever. Despite what some may think, (history also shows) nothing lasts forever.
Well I don’t live in the USA, but as long as the likes of Apple provide on HD the huge number of high quality movies and TV shows over the internet that we can get now outside the USA from iTunes via their DRM I’ll be happy.
[that was meant to be irony]
I agree nationalistic restrictions are bad especially when backed up by technology.
USA residents take note: it has taken us non-USA residents a decade of pain trying to find DVD software decoders, or find DVD players that can play DVD region 1 DVDs plus local content or counting down our Apple DVD firmware just to watch the movies we own (legally) from multiple countries. We are only now (2-3 years) getting multi-region DVD players and DVD decoders to get fair use on our own content. I don’t want to go back to that old way of life. I would prefer to have a lower quality of video.
Apple’s restrictions (probably not self-imposed) on non-USA use of content seems to be indicative of where it is all heading again. This WILL cause a repeat of workarounds and piracy by otherwise law-abiding non-USA citizens.
SEE I TOLD YOU!!
It’s all about Trusted Computing, EFI and HDCP.
It’s going to place the control of the computer out of our hands and into theirs (pick your poison company)
Now’s the time to get the truly free DRM Mac, the Quad. After that, it’s all over.
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39215921,00.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing