MPAA Sues DVD Chip Manufacturers

WhatAmIDoingHere writes "The Motion Picture Association of America has sued two chip manufacturing companies for selling integrated circuits to manufacturers that produce non-approved DVD players."

Comments

Re:Absurdity and Orwellianism

[black mariah]

I know I'm breaking the oath laid forth in my sig... but fuck it. It's a sig.

Those manufacturers don't conform to the precise specs the industry wants, so off with their heads? How about what the consumer wants? Oh, right, we don't count.

You're right. You don't. You don't fucking matter in this dispute one tiny fucking bit. This is a contract dispute. Nothing more. Nothing less. Shit like this happens a dozen fucking times a day, only now it's something that the average dorkass Slashdotter cares about. No, goddammit, I'm not going to call it something else. I'm fucking sick of morons like you being pedantic cuntrags when it comes to the term 'piracy'. In case you don't fucking know, a word can have more than one goddamned meaning you fucking idiot. Then again, most Slashdotters are so fucking uptight I'd be surprised if they could parse the same sentence two different ways.

Re:There's a difference....

[Pootie Tang]

Cigarettes will fuck me up, no matter what I do. so selling cigarettes is like selling cyonide sweets, not normal sweets that may make you fat if you eat too many.

Some would argue that most CDs and DVDs are trash and will rot your mind. I say people should be able to decide for themselves if they want to watch/listen. Same goes with smoking.

Guns were designed to kill things, so I suppose they shouldn't really sue the manufactures for making guns, they should sue the government for letting them.

Guns were designed to fire projectiles.

Re:There's a difference....

[Ungrounded Lightning]

Guns were designed to kill things,

In that case, more than 99.98% of guns are defective because they never killed anything.

Different guns are designed for different things. All are designed to throw pellets really fast. But what they do with the pellets are different.

Some are intended for games. (Target shooting, shotgun games like skeet and trap, etc.)

Some are designed for hunting. (Lots of different designs, too, for different game and different conditions.)

Some are designed for war. (Which means trying to WOUND the guy on the other side, since that takes MORE people out of action than killing them. They make rotten hunting guns. Too likely to leave a wounded animal around instead of killing it cleanly and with less suffering than ANY other way for it to die.)

Some are designed to protect the user from attack, by stopping a threatened attack or an attack in progress. (Just as war guns aren't intended to kill, neither are these. Unfortunately, to be effective at stopping attack, if you actually have to shoot the attacker maybe one in four he dies. Fortunately, you almost never have to actually SHOOT him. Just seeing you have a gun usually makes him stop attacking.)

Some are designed for multiple purposes - and virtually all of them can be used for more than one thing, with varying degrees of effectiveness.

But (like gulf clubs and vehicles), there are a LOT of different designs, each optimized for a different purpose. But virtually NONE of them (except hunting guns) are designed to kill - and of those that are, essentially all are designed to kill animals, not people.