Crazy how the _courts_ get to decide what we do with the same technology that is basically outdating them. Like the whole linking thing of a few years ago, which was fortunate enough to get struck down. Either everyone is going to ignore rulings like this altoghther, making them unenforcable, or the net is really going to start to suck (even more than it already does lately)... I mean, should fair use even be an issue with crappy thumbnails? What are you gonna _do_ with them?
No, they won't learn. The hollywood suits are getting pretty freaked out over this "digital movie = easy piracy" thing. The DIVX model, no matter how misguided, is just an attempt for the suits to try and regain some of the revenue they think they're losing (and will lose in the future) to digital piracy. Maybe they think if they foist enough of this on us (the public), we'll forget about the whole idea of movie ownership and accept the concept that we need to come back to the studio and give 'em some cash whenever we want to watch one. I don't think so, but they'll try... if this doesn't work, I'm guessing there will be more attempts in the future. Not to mention the whole slew of video-on-demand stuff that will be coming when the technology is widely spread enough. Which will be cool, but not to the exclusion of physical ownership.
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Crazy how the _courts_ get to decide what we do with the same technology that is basically outdating them. Like the whole linking thing of a few years ago, which was fortunate enough to get struck down. Either everyone is going to ignore rulings like this altoghther, making them unenforcable, or the net is really going to start to suck (even more than it already does lately)... I mean, should fair use even be an issue with crappy thumbnails? What are you gonna _do_ with them?
No, they won't learn. The hollywood suits are getting pretty freaked out over this "digital movie = easy piracy" thing. The DIVX model, no matter how misguided, is just an attempt for the suits to try and regain some of the revenue they think they're losing (and will lose in the future) to digital piracy. Maybe they think if they foist enough of this on us (the public), we'll forget about the whole idea of movie ownership and accept the concept that we need to come back to the studio and give 'em some cash whenever we want to watch one. I don't think so, but they'll try... if this doesn't work, I'm guessing there will be more attempts in the future. Not to mention the whole slew of video-on-demand stuff that will be coming when the technology is widely spread enough. Which will be cool, but not to the exclusion of physical ownership.