Kaleidescape CEO Speaks Out About CSS Lawsuit

Posted by timothy on Monday February 14, 2005 @10:34AM from the fighting-the-forces-of-nonsense dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Engadget has an interview with Michael Malcolm, the CEO of Kaleidescape, which you might remember as the high-end DVD jukebox manufacturer that was sued by the DVD Copy Control Association for violating its CSS license. Despite the fact that anyone who can afford a $27,000+ DVD jukebox also usually ends up buying hundreds of movies to load onto it, the DVD-CCA wants them to redesign the Kaleidescape to require the presence of the physical DVD disc in the drive during authentication and playback. Besides defeating the whole purpose of having a jukebox in the first place (none of their jukeboxes allow for copying, streaming, or sharing DVDs), Malcolm says he can't find any clause in their CSS license which would require them to implement this "feature" anyway and they're about to file a counter-action against the DVD-CCA."

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Plea for CSS by ReadParse · 2005-02-14 14:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I, for one, strongly support Cascading Style Sheets and I think they ought to be supported by all DVD players

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Confused again by webhat · 2005-02-14 23:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If you read my comments then you'll regularly see I get confused with acronyms.

Who els read this as Cascading Style Sheets?

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