[nylug-talk] [Fwd: [IP] No one on the planet will choose this voluntarily]

[mylar]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 03:08, Kevin Mark wrote:
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> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:48:14PM -0400, Ron Guerin wrote:
> > Indeed.  How would buy this?  Clearly the manufacturers think their
> > customers are the RIAA/MPAA and not the consumer.  Are they correct?
> > (rhetorical question)
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> > - Ron
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> Hi Ron, 
> thanks for the info. So most of these talk about a net connection to my
> HD player? Who's going to pay for that? Why would I connect a player to
> the 'net? And if I was going to smoke crack and connect it, it will spy
> on what I am doing and then nuke the player, update it without my
> approval or call the RIAA police force? Are they going to discontinue
> DVDs anytime soon? If no, I'll stick with those and live with the lesser
> of two evils.
> Cheers,
> Kev

DVD's will probably be available for a long time coming. And what about
backwards compatability ? Are these new Blu_Raygun players going to play
my old DVD's ? Or does the MPAA expect me to burn my old DVD collection
and start over ? And they expect everyone to have their player networked
so they can zap it of they crack it ?? I think these people are smoking
too much crack.

mylar