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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."
You know that Robin Hood isn't a real live person, right?
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.
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yeah, right.
laike any of those 'pirates' would really pay money for those stupid dvds
Exactly! Why don't people get this? It's not like these people had the choice of buying the DVD at Walmart, or just downloading it for free. We're talking about people who couldn't afford to buy the DVDs anyway. If they couldn't download them, then they would never see them at all. They're not losing potential customers.
That's what I told the cop when he arrested me for stealing a Mercedes. "Look! I have my most recent pay stub right here, look at what I make! I could never afford this Mercedes, so I stole it! It's not like I would have bought it if I couldn't have taken it, it's way too expensive!"
Like woodworking? Build your own picture frames.
Nice work on the "truth" pal. Now explain the following Republican creations: "Death Tax" and "Partial Birth Abortion".
k,thx,bye.
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