Just wondering. Could this lead to the return of DiVX. It wouldn't matter if you copied the DVD ROMs, they would still have to dial-in to verify that you could watch them. I don't think the movie industries care too much about us geeks watching movies on our Linux boxes. They want to prevent the mass-production pirates from creating DVDs and selling to the mass public (i.e. console DVD players, not computers). If they went to a DiVX standard, they could eliminate the pirates and still get their money per view. Of course this assumes they did the DiVX callin scheme with some smarts, which is also probably unlikely.
Anyone know what large vendors are paying for the version of Windoz they are putting on their machines? I thought I heard it was $79, but this seems quite high for machines as cheap as what is coming out of emachines, et.al.
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Just wondering. Could this lead to the return of DiVX. It wouldn't matter if you copied the DVD ROMs, they would still have to dial-in to verify that you could watch them. I don't think the movie industries care too much about us geeks watching movies on our Linux boxes. They want to prevent the mass-production pirates from creating DVDs and selling to the mass public (i.e. console DVD players, not computers). If they went to a DiVX standard, they could eliminate the pirates and still get their money per view. Of course this assumes they did the DiVX callin scheme with some smarts, which is also probably unlikely.
About time microsoft got what's coming to them. First post. :-P
Anyone know what large vendors are paying for the version of Windoz they are putting on their machines? I thought I heard it was $79, but this seems quite high for machines as cheap as what is coming out of emachines, et.al.