[opendtv] Re: Microsoft's Masters: Whose Rules Does Your Media Center Play By?

They had a choice. Maybe they would have lost a deal of some sort but they were not forced by law. They decided to please consumers a bit less and Hollywood a bit more.
They can live with the results now as Vista sells just a bit less and Media Center gets a tarnished image. Other software will record in cases where Microsoft software will not. And people now know this.
I don't expect the broadcast flag to become law in the next few years. Do you? 

- Tom


Kon Wilms wrote:

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Tom Barry <tom.r.barry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

M$FT was voluntarily pandering to Hollywood and I hope it costs them market
share.


Are you indeed serious? There was nothing voluntary about it.

Cheers
Kon
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