Film Studios Sue Samsung Over DVD players

Lam1969 writes "The Korea Times reports that five U.S. film studios have taken Samsung to court for selling DVD players which allow users to bypass DRM features. The film companies, including Walt Disney and Time Warner, are demanding Samsung recall the players. According to a Samsung spokesman quoted in the article, the movie studios probably 'take issue' with Samsung's HD841 model, which Samsung sold in the United States for five months in 2004."

Comments

And the laws mean nothing?

[Kombat]

These companies don't have a guarantee that they should earn such and such amount per year.

There are laws in place that they have to play by, and when their competition/customers ignore those laws, it's not a fair playing field. Of course they have a right to complain.

How many companies and start-ups go bust every year because there business plans are obsolete?

We're not talking about obsolete business plans. We're talking about massive amounts of potential customers taking your product without paying for it. Illegally.

If they can't make money, tough!

So I guess they should have chosen to product a tangible product that is harder to steal, than creative works that are trivial to acquire without paying? That's a great position to take. If everyone here hates paying for products that contain real value, and everyone hates big successful companies that are good at what they do, then maybe Microsoft, the MPAA, and the RIAA should all just go to hell, we'll just download all their products for free, and in a couple of years when there's no one left making movies/software/music, we can rejoice that our radio waves and movie theatres are no longer filled with crap!

Indeed, they won't be filled with anything at all.

Great thinking there, genius.

Re:Here we go, 'truth' time...

[badmammajamma]

Nice work on the "truth" pal. Now explain the following Republican creations: "Death Tax" and "Partial Birth Abortion".

k,thx,bye.