“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 is trying to hide something while checking the “Private Browsing” option…
Now THAT sounds kinky….
The US has been moving steadily toward Napoleonic Law (guilty until proven innocent) for years. Drug testing and breathalyzers are good examples. The sheeple have gone to sleep.
“Give me safety and large corporate profits or give me death.” – the New Patrick Henry
just do what everyone else does when the industry locks out legitimate use:
resort to piracy
neomonkey:
Could it be that the generation of “free (expression, love, _fill in the blank_)” is now a worse “Man” than “The Man” they were fighting? Sweet irony.
We are getting our rights trampled on all the time by the RIAA and now the MPAA. The worst of it is, they are just starting! Our government in the US is doing everything in their power to help them out too. This is not a Repub or Dem thing… it is a big business buying big government and little us getting shafted and treated like crooks!
This may sound like “the sky is fallen” blah blah blah, but if you really think that; you are blind to what is really happening in the US.
The Dude abides
See movie here
http://www.lafkon.net/tc/
“However, it won’t last forever. Despite what some may think, (history also shows) nothing lasts forever.”
This is true because there are people who care enough to put up a fight and make change happen. Their are too many sheeple that are happy enough just grazing around on what they are served because they are lazy. People do not want to fight for what is right (though it seems it is okay to go to some place else {Iraq} and fight for their rights… but I digress).
The Dude abides
Better start rounding up your favorite films on VHS while you still can.
America won’t last forever. The sad thing is China’s the likely candidate to take it’s place as the new super power. There censorship laws are bad enough.
I have better things to do than rack my brain trying to copy hollywood crap. mmmm ‘Date Movie’, the world must see this.
Porn won’t have DRM and that’s the main thing.
Most people don’t care about HD quality. They care about convenience. Just look at iTunes success. HD-DVD is no more convenient than DVD.
This explains what’s happening, starting with the MacTels
http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html
seriously.. the sky IS falling…… really… it is I tell you, it is! (stamping foot)
mdn word is “you”… as in dude YOU are such a tool
Big Brother and Skynet… two extremely scary fictional entities that may see the light of reality in the next few years, thanks to this stuff. We all better hope like hell that they don’t, and that Apple doesn’t embrace them…
–mAc