[opendtv] Re: MPAA wants to stop DVRs from recording some movies
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:50:02 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
the important distinction being that the Verizon Fios requirement is
immediately clear to subscribers (and they are quite successful, despite that,
perhaps because of it) and the others were dead on arrival, mostly in the
previous century.
An another important distinction: Fios provides benefit to the consumer, and
there are probably even benefits to having the demark in the house. The other
items did not provide consumer benefits.
Sometimes, this stuff is just whining, something I was told that we were
supposed to leave behind by the time we left grammar school, if not earlier.
John Willkie
-----Original Message-----
>From: Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jun 28, 2008 6:48 AM
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: MPAA wants to stop DVRs from recording some movies
>
>Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>Companies that make it
>> difficult to consume their products may suffer at the hands of the
>> marketplace, as Sony Music did when they tried to put copy protection on
>> new audio CD releases.
>
>Yes. Some other notable examples:
>
>Disney's DVD that 'expires' after two days
>
>Circuit City's DIVX 'pay per view' DVD
>
>Pre-Recorded VHS tapes with a magnet in the cassette body
>to erase the program as the consumer plays it the first time
>
>It astounds me that these things even made it through R&D.
>
>Then there's this:
>
>Verizon Fios, unlike other utilities that disembark outside
>the customer's home, not only requires it's equipment to be
>installed inside, but also be powered from the customer's
>electric utility.
>
>
>
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