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Hollywood afraid of Microsoft
prostoalex writes "Associated Press claims that media industry has been quietly avoiding Microsoft and trying to keep the movie and music industries to their own. However, these days there's little chance of doing business without Microsoft and the movie studios are afraid of digital piracy more than they're afraid of Microsoft. The biggest fear? Microsoft will use its desktop PC monopoly to charge Hollywood outrageous fees and basically own the movie industry. Microsoft refutes the accusations, saying that it's only interested in selling more copies of Windows and applications for its platform, and providing movie content would promote the platform. Also noteworthy that among the four video-on-demand services that New York Times reviewed recently two that got the journalistic acclaim (StarzTicket and CinemaNow) are run by technology companies - Real Networks and Microsoft."
I love it when the monopolies... err I mean, monopoly and oligopoly fight.
With MPAA on one side and Microsoft on the other, I just don't know who to cheer for.
If you replaced the word 'afraid' with 'jealous.'
And the movie industry is the nicest bunch of people you'd ever want to meet. No vendetta's, no black listing, everyone operates above the board. Every movie star is the perfect role model for our children.
If they get mixed up with the likes of Bill Gates, I just don't know what this will do to our shining example of what Americans are really like?
Some people have a great problem just with English so no doubt adding Polish might ruin things for them...
Did he inhale?
...For all the accusations and hyperbole here, he seems a much more honest businessman than the hollywood crowd. Hopefully their sleazy(er?) practices don't rub off on Microsoft!
Blar.
>** If they have brains. Or hearts. Or courage.
If movies have taught me anything, its that one quick trip to the Wizard of Oz can fix this!
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Is Microsoft therefore scarier than republicans by transitivity?
I mean, I know there's shades of grey and then there's shades of grey... but this is grey.
Hey, neat, instead of my Uncle, Bob's my parent.
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
Blue Screen, coming to a cinema near you...
Slightly OT, but I saw this coming, alongside Microsofts patent scams, 'licensing' their API's (read, now they are established, pay for them biatch, whilst destroying other standards).
Microsoft are moving in subtle ways - they have the money to do this as well.
Now we can have bad movies that delete themselves, at least that saves us the trouble...
I wonder how long it will be before they dynamically or on the fly replace movie scenes and adverts within movies across the lifespan of the movie?
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
Henry Kissinger's comment on the Iran/Iraq war in the 80's: "Too bad they can't both lose."
"xXxP" - Vin Diesel returns as the tattooed secret agent. This time he's after Open Source Communists and he's only taking DRM for an answer...
"The XP Men" - see the superpower team of Dr DLL, Outlookman, Captain Codec, Blue Screener and The Worm battle the "Freedom Force" of Stallman, the Perlmonger, Apache and Python...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
That could lead to:
Windows II: Webcentric Boogaloo
Clippy Strikes Back
The Neverending BSOD
And many others too terrible to imagine...
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Microsoft was made in the depths of IBM. Only there can it be unmade.
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