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Article #42Re: Software and hardware monopoly is bad
From: John Williams
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 01:55
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 01:55
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Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote: >>But what they mostly forget is the fact that finally an audio >>stream has to leave the speaker uncoded and a video stream >>has to leave a display uncoded. At least at this point > > > Don't think this is being ignored. There is a brouhaha brewing about > digital cable right now, wherein Hollywood is trying to > disable/degrade analog outputs from digital TVs. It's called the analog gap. What gets me about this stuff is that claims of preventing piracy are blatantly false. Same as e.g. region coding on DVDs. The commercial scale DVD/CD pirates will always find a way around the technology, because they have a vested interest in doing so. Domestic piracy (eg burning cds for your friends) is just a blip in the revenue landscape. The recording industry is lying (or being lied to) - it's all about control of markets, not prevention of piracy. John
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