Intel Stands Up For Consumers in Next-gen DVD War

Sanity writes "According to a Macworld story, Intel is standing up for the interests of consumers in the war between Blue-ray and HD-DVD, by making its support for either format contingent on support for 'mandatory managed copy', the ability to copy content to 'home servers' so that it can be accessed from around the home. While it is refreshing to see someone consider the (often ignored) interest of consumers in the world of DRM, it appears that 'mandatory managed copy' will still allow content producers to limit what consumers can do with the content and equipment they own well beyond the limitations imposed by copyright law. Thus the question over DRM remains: should we be policed by our own property?"

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The answer to your police question is:

[Anonymous Coward]

Not enough people give a shit for it to matter. -1 Tru Dat, homies.

should we be policed by our own property?

[mozkill]

the answer to this is that "nobody ever said that it was against the law to 'partially' sell property or rights to property. If they want to sell the viewing rights to a movie without selling you the right to copy, then they have every right to do so.

this is a free country for sellers as well as buyers. dont forget that.

Re:Sometimes it's gets pretty stupid around here

[tehwebguy]

at first i thought you were an asshole, but
you are right. we will never truly break the
business of drm by cracking it, we'll only
truly break it buy discontinuing our funding
of it.

every time we buy something drm'd, even if we
complain, we have just given drm $XX.XX more
in support.

kind of depressing, really