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Film Studios Sue Samsung Over DVD players

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the day-late-and-a-dollar-short dept.

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."

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  1. Obligatory reference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    MPAA: "I find your lack of DRM Disturbing..."

  2. Raise your hand... by Deathbane27 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The film companies, including Walt Disney and Time Warner, are demanding Samsung recall the players.

    Raise your hand if you're going to return your player if/when it's recalled. =P

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  3. Wonderful by LarsWestergren · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm really looking forward to the day when I can get sued for just owning a DVD player that allows me to bypass commercials, inane FBI warnings, and ads for studios and technologies like THX.

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  4. Re:I hate the non-skippable DVDs by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was watching Voyager DVDs and every episode starts with a non-skippable 10s clip of Voyager powering up and moving across the sreen. Even though it was only for 10s, after 3-4 episodes I was really really hating that clip.

    I had a similar reaction, except that after 3-4 episodes I was really really hating Voyager. :-)

  5. Re:Explaining DRM to a 2 year old by flewp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't be too hard, since I bet most of the people responsible for such things have the mental capacity of a 2 year old...

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  6. Re:VCR by m0nstr42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...a 4016/4066 will sort of just about do, but look at the Maxim web site for some higher-bandwidth, lower-on-resistance ones...

    Maxim has girls AND components? It truely is geek heaven.

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