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Father of DVD Gets Bitter Reward

Posted by michael on from the what-have-you-done-for-us-lately dept.

Ant writes "MSNBC has a Newsweek article on Warren Lieberfarb, the father of DVD, transformed the movie business. And yet his reward was he was fired."

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  1. Re:One MAJOR factual error! by timothv · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You must be my lost identical twin, heh. Let's see which post the fascist moderators will mod "Redundant"...

  2. Re:Galileo by kfg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think the word you're looking for is "heliocentric".

    Yes, I rather think it was, however, solcentric, while not the standard, would be a perfectly legitimate coining of a word that means the same thing.

    Heliocentric itself was once simply "made up."

    KFG

  3. um DVD/CSS by t1m0r4n · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Wasn't it determined that DVD is evil long ago with the DVD/CSS protest thing after the arrest? Am I the last one wearing the No DVD t-shirt with the css_descramble.c source written on the back?