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Sony, NEC to Merge Optical Drive Teams

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the friction-waiting-to-happen dept.

illeism writes to tell us The Register is reporting that Sony and NEC are planning on merging their optical drive divisions. From the article: "Sony will be the bigger of the two stakeholders in the joint venture. It will own 55 per cent of Sony NEC Optiarc, to NEC's 45 per cent. Indeed, the JV will be run by Sony staffer Shinichi Yamamura, currently deputy president of Sony's Video Business Group."

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  1. Yeah, I bet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The DRM shouldn't matter anyway, because "no copy-protection scheme is foolproof"* and "information wants to be free,"** not to mention "the internet changes everything"*** and "economics as we know it is obsolete."**** Did I get that right, you foul-smelling hippie Slashtard?

    * Hint: Adequate doesn't imply foolproof.
    ** No, it doesn't.
    *** No, it didn't.
    **** You're fucking retarded--you and your ilk--and you'll find your Stallmanesque, Dorito-studded beard isn't quite as attractive to ladies in real life as you'd think to judge by the babe parade on your flickering CRT, once you finally get around to sponging that crusty exoskeleton of what used to be semen off your flesh and leaving your basement shrine to Napoleon Dynamite, which you probably misspell as "Napolean." Any day now.