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- Nov 10, 2004
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- Sword Base
yes I am aware that their businesses work in quite different (and sometimes bizzare seeming) ways to yours, but at the end of the day all such companies want:
A - to make huge amounts of money, and
B - don't care if what they do is illegal or immoral as long as they don't get caught/punished
Most of the big movers and shakers who are pushing for heavy handed DRM are the large US movie and music distributors, Sony has only become interested in DRM because they now own Universal Pictures, and sell games & consoles. If these were not the case they would probably try doing everything they could to avoid putting expensive HDCP chips in them (because it costs them more). DRM vs Anti-DRM may unfortunately not be the next big battle. It depends on public response, everybody will not just accept this like a herd of sheep, but the deciding factor will be how many people, if not enough then the battle will be DRM (BluRay, Palladium, etc) vs Slightly Less DRM (HD-DVD, iTunes).
A - to make huge amounts of money, and
B - don't care if what they do is illegal or immoral as long as they don't get caught/punished
Most of the big movers and shakers who are pushing for heavy handed DRM are the large US movie and music distributors, Sony has only become interested in DRM because they now own Universal Pictures, and sell games & consoles. If these were not the case they would probably try doing everything they could to avoid putting expensive HDCP chips in them (because it costs them more). DRM vs Anti-DRM may unfortunately not be the next big battle. It depends on public response, everybody will not just accept this like a herd of sheep, but the deciding factor will be how many people, if not enough then the battle will be DRM (BluRay, Palladium, etc) vs Slightly Less DRM (HD-DVD, iTunes).