Story: Will Hollywood lock up our movies?
Doesn't anyone remember the original DivX format? While I understand there are some compelling business reasons for being concerned about digital formats, it seems some companies are destined to repeat themselves... More precisely, perhaps they repeatedly try past failures in order to see if we consumers will now agree or ignore the changes.
Forcing people to watch things, locking up TV broadcasts to keep them from being recorded, locking down people's handheld camcorders - all of these things do not seem to be customer friendly do they? How about coming up with an new or improved business model? It will be an interesting next couple of years as each side decides how to proceed. This also has huge implications for the computer industry as devices continue to merge functionality.
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