Hardware Copy Protection Battles

substatica writes: "Law.com is running this article on the content industry working to convince congress that not introducing hardware copyright protection ( as well as copy protection built into OS, Software, Web Browsers and Routers ) would eventually lead to the "industry's destruction", as put by Michael Eisner. We've been able to copy VHS for over a decade and they're still making movies. Does anyone really think that the movie industry will be eradicated due to copyright infringment?" Consideration of the SSSCA has been put off a few months, but it will be back. The Register covers one part of the split between content and hardware with this story about Philips getting more uppity about their Compact Disc logo, a follow-up to this story. The Reuters article that the Register refers to is here.

Comments

Re:Good old Walt

[Rude Turnip]

I don't know. Let's thaw him out and ask.

Re:Good point

[ncc74656]

Microsoft, bad as it is, is no where as restrictive and closed as Apple is.

Hmm...who was it who used to publish manuals for its products that included schematics and assembler output (source and object, side by side) for its products? Who is it that has made a sizable chunk of its latest OS open source? It certainly isn't these guys.