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DivX;) Goes Legit
ZooB writes: "There is an article running on CNET right now about DivX and how,(and I'm sure this comes as no surprise to anyone reading this here), such a technology used so frequently for piracy can be used in a legitimate manner. The article is interesting enough, but take careful note of the comment by an MPAA representative. "We are aware of DivX and similar technologies, but it's not the technology that's the issue, it's how it is applied," said a spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America, who declined to comment specifically on DivXNetworks. "Our concern is with technology that is marketed, promoted and used as a tool for piracy." His first sentence seems to fly in the face of the DMCA as the law is currently written and then, perhaps realizing what he has just said, the spokesman back pedals and contradicts his previous statement! It is nice to know that someone besides a politician can speak out of both sides of their mouth."
Fire in the hole!
I believe it's DivX ;-)
Perhaps sniffing around for profitable oppourtunities with the MPAA et all has worn that nose clean off?
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Impossible. They're the heroes of American society, boldly struggling against the forces of evil.
Either that, or they're just a bunch of lying snakes. Your call.
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If Microsoft analyses the DivX product looking for IP violations... would they not have violated the DMCA?
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"The DivX technology lineage is based on using Microsoft technology and re-branding it as its own," said Michael Aldridge, Microsoft's product manager for the Windows Digital Media Division.
Translation: All of your codec are belong to us.
*** Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?
...It is nice to know that someone besides a politician can speak out of both sides of their mouth.
I agree, but you got the wrong orifice.
I think our beloved Content Providers should be trusted with this responsibility. Sort of an auxilliary government, charged with providing all services, information and communications we use on a daily basis. And we can trust them - I mean, the company that created Mickey Mouse, for example, couldn't do anything NOT in the public's best interest, right?
We'd have giant media conglomerates acting as sort of Philosopher Kings to a public desperate for what they have to sell. And nobody would do anything illegal, 'cause it'd be impossible.
I don't know if that ever made sense. But I burned off some steam ;)
What if it takes more than five days to download a movie?
Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
Whoever thought it was a good idea to name a piece of software with a smiley should be strapped to a chair and forced to watch sitcoms for the rest of their life.
Yeah, they were criminals and they abbreviated their names in really lame ways.
You know it occurs to me that piracy in all it's forms has depended HEAVILY on compression. If software was distributed in an uncompressed form and compression was declared illegal then the entire piracy problem would cease to exist!
:)
(obligitory sarcasm disclaimer here for the sarcasm impaired)
The same kinds of relationships between illegal activities and VERY USEFULL tools or commodities can be found all throughout every day life. It's pretty hard to smoke pot without oxygen or commit a drive-by without cars yet still oxygen and cars are freely available. Perhaps we shouldn't tell congress.
-Zane
This sig is worse than my last.
Think of the ramifications of making compression illegal! Would that include even non-data compression? Would the streetcorner player have to hang up his accordion? Would the house wife or husband (for political correctness) be forced to burn their sponges? Or maybe the real answer is to have someone police files being sent, and stretch them out... inserting extra bits everywhere... THAT would work! =D -z3r0byt3