I think it's all about the money. Just an example off the top of my head: the license to the innards of future DirectX versions could be held back from a non-DRM-team player so the competition would get a definate advantage in performance.
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Given the choice between two identically performing chips, one of which restricts your ability to do something, I'd bet most people would choose to get the unrestricted one
In time mass acceptance by the techno-illiterate will destroy any choice. There are are only two major PC CPU manufacturers, both are big fans of limiting your control of what you buy.
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The drooling masses will eat up the slop fed to them so they can watch their DRM'd BluRay edition of Friends and Threes Company.
I don't think the entertainment suits see it that way, though.
They seem to accept that DRM is a cost of doing business but it's measurable in a spreadsheet. They have no way of measuring the cost of piracy (other than bogus inflated estimates) so they seem to stick with the devil they know.
If 10 people do it, that's 10 separate revocations the AACS administrators have to do. Plus they have to continuously watch for more instances of the same crack all day every day forever. Seems like a pain in the ass to me.
Hollywood pays big actors zillions of dollars to appear in a movie, paying some chumps to revoke keys and watch for new hacks is pocket change for them.
Actually, all HD DVD players are required by the spec to have an ethernet port. Therefore, you won't need a PC to download the latest firmware for the player.
If your house doesn't have a PC what are the odds it will have an ethernet or internet connection for the updates?
Used to be, industry considered the ridicolous size of CDs protection enough -- 700MB or thereabout would take forever to download, and be completely cost-prohibitive to store on a hard-disc anyway.
Heh, so true. I remember upgrading to a couple of 800 MB disks in a Novell server at an old workplace many years ago. I thought "Whoa, we can hold an entire CD on this thing now!"
The price of HDDVD/BluRay players are the limiting factor. For most households DVD is "good enough"; they don't have HD sets or fancy home theatres.
We have a 52" HD set with an upconverting DVD player. It does look a bit better than standard DVD resolution thanks to some interpolation magic but we decided long ago to not cough up any money for a true HD player until they're cracked. Until then we download 720p x.264 rips and enjoy those in our TVs native resolution.
Having to upgrade an HD player we buy just to appease Hollywood is bullshit.
1 - Aquire discarded cardboard box, stick, string. 2 - Get some bait. VHS tapes love jam. 3 - Prop up box along one length, open side down, on stick. 4 - Attach jam to stick with short length of string. 5 - Place bait under box. 6 -... wait for your prey...
Heh, years ago in IRC I wrote something to the effect of "Reading Slashdot at -1 is like driving through Cracktown with the motor stuck in first gear." (memory spark, I think a buddy has that on his quote page)
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Going from 31 dead people in a senseless mass killing to yet another top 20 list from a worthless site.
Worthless? Dude, you got first post!
I hope he didn't own a Wii. Manhunt 2 is coming out soon and I'm getting a Wii just for that.
I can't begin to imagine how anyone related to this must feel.
Probably pretty bad.
Heh, you know the $485 wooden knob business is booming when the company uses Yahoo mail accounts. (look! I'm not kidding!)
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Microsoft is to computers what Philip Morris is to lungs.
Woo, a new quote!
Sure, the sales to minors has gone down, but I'll wager the sales to parents of those minors has gone up almost as much.
Domains are not IP addresses, also the first two domains use the same mail servers.
VLC is sweet. For family and friends who aren't geeks I usually point them to that or Media Player Classic (not an MS product)
I think it's all about the money. Just an example off the top of my head: the license to the innards of future DirectX versions could be held back from a non-DRM-team player so the competition would get a definate advantage in performance.
Given the choice between two identically performing chips, one of which restricts your ability to do something, I'd bet most people would choose to get the unrestricted one
In time mass acceptance by the techno-illiterate will destroy any choice. There are are only two major PC CPU manufacturers, both are big fans of limiting your control of what you buy.
The drooling masses will eat up the slop fed to them so they can watch their DRM'd BluRay edition of Friends and Threes Company.
Heheheh, it's the favicon for his page.
No comment from Kilgore Trout, either.
That means kids may have to spend time outdoors this summer.
I don't think the entertainment suits see it that way, though.
They seem to accept that DRM is a cost of doing business but it's measurable in a spreadsheet. They have no way of measuring the cost of piracy (other than bogus inflated estimates) so they seem to stick with the devil they know.
If 10 people do it, that's 10 separate revocations the AACS administrators have to do. Plus they have to continuously watch for more instances of the same crack all day every day forever. Seems like a pain in the ass to me.
Hollywood pays big actors zillions of dollars to appear in a movie, paying some chumps to revoke keys and watch for new hacks is pocket change for them.
Actually, all HD DVD players are required by the spec to have an ethernet port. Therefore, you won't need a PC to download the latest firmware for the player.
If your house doesn't have a PC what are the odds it will have an ethernet or internet connection for the updates?
Used to be, industry considered the ridicolous size of CDs protection enough -- 700MB or thereabout would take forever to download, and be completely cost-prohibitive to store on a hard-disc anyway.
Heh, so true. I remember upgrading to a couple of 800 MB disks in a Novell server at an old workplace many years ago. I thought "Whoa, we can hold an entire CD on this thing now!"
How times have changed.
The price of HDDVD/BluRay players are the limiting factor. For most households DVD is "good enough"; they don't have HD sets or fancy home theatres.
We have a 52" HD set with an upconverting DVD player. It does look a bit better than standard DVD resolution thanks to some interpolation magic but we decided long ago to not cough up any money for a true HD player until they're cracked. Until then we download 720p x.264 rips and enjoy those in our TVs native resolution.
Having to upgrade an HD player we buy just to appease Hollywood is bullshit.
Haha, so true it hurts! Doom 3 was a corn-laden turd.
The NextEngine scanner can only do 6" scans, so we Canadians will have to wait a few more years before desktop penis scanning is the norm.
The cheapest way to capture VHS tape:
1 - Aquire discarded cardboard box, stick, string.
2 - Get some bait. VHS tapes love jam.
3 - Prop up box along one length, open side down, on stick.
4 - Attach jam to stick with short length of string.
5 - Place bait under box.
6 -
I committed most of my murders before I got into gaming.
Heh, years ago in IRC I wrote something to the effect of "Reading Slashdot at -1 is like driving through Cracktown with the motor stuck in first gear." (memory spark, I think a buddy has that on his quote page)