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New DRM Scheme To Make Current DVD Players Obsolete
Oneflower writes "ExtremeTech reports that a proposed new DRM scheme could make current DVD players obsolete. The scheme, from Hewlett-Packard and Philips, targets DVD+R and DVD+RW and is an attempt to enforce the FCC broadcast flag on DVD recorders."
New DRM Scheme To Make Current Slashdot stories Obsolete
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Yet Another Star Wars Boxset to buy!
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
Try Thunderbird ;-)
Three people shocked by news of planned obsolescence in consumer products!
You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill afford...
Lets sue them for making me have to buy a new DVD player
In other news, 15 years ago a woman in Lithuania gave birth to a kid who will crack the new scheme shortly after his sixteenth birthday.
In order to secure our profits, you must go out and buy new hardware.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
... to buy a shedload of cheap DVD players and VCRs unencumbered by any of this crap. Keep 'em in the loft 'til they're needed, wheel 'em out one by one as they break.
Unless... this is a scheme to make us buy shedloads of cheap DVD players and VCRs. Argh! What's the conscientious paranoid supposed to do with himself nowadays?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
This has Betamax written all over it.
You have been protected.
Do not mix DVD+R with DVD-R; You will end up with a bunch of useless DVD=R media!
This has Betamax written all over it.
It already has Digital Video Express (DiVX) written all over it. Adding Betamax on top of that could only improve its chances!
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
You are being protected from pirates that run the large media companies out of business. With out those large media companies you would not have such great entertainment as "Friends" and "Biodome". These companies need to make billions of dollars so the can pay these actors and singer tens of millions of dollars. I mean who would slave away for six months are years on a sitcom for less then an million a year. They might as well be a greater at Walmart or pick tomatoes for that kind of money.
I mean lets face it John Travolta worked hard for that 11 million to buy a zeppelin. The head of Sony might have to get a smaller jet if we do not do something now! It is to save you from a world with out sitcoms and mindless movies. You need to start helping yourself. Send you money right now to
Save the poor Millionaires
666 Sony Way
Santa Anna CA.
Or you can buy my book called "Who is stealing from you?" just send $500 dollars to me and I will let you know who is ripping you off. I promise that I will provide you with information about someone that has taken at least 500 dollars from you in a totally legal if unethical way. Makes a great gift as well.
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hehe..the child of a friend of mine thought the slot in the VHS was a receptacle for the remains of his peanutbutter sandwich. And then said child (tried to) put a tape in after it.
That is incorrect. The Picass0 robot is malfunctioning. I will protect you from the terrible secret of Fiorina. Fiorina has a terrible power.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
I'm still waiting for two features they never brought over from VHS: ...
2. A format that will withstand the destructive force of a toddler. (Though I do applaud the DVD's resistance to heat from a car.)
Excuse me sir, but how long do you plan on keeping this toddler?
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
What's an FCC?
Federal Censorship Committee. You guys should really look into getting yourselves one. They're great!
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Well yeah sure, the new blank disks might be more expensive. But since they'll be stop the darn pirates dead in their tracks, the companies that provide content will be making lots more money. And I'm sure that'll result in much lower prices for the consumer!
Your bitter cynicism troubles me. Must you be so negative?
I am NOT a man!
I am a free number!