Sarcasm; on!
Piracy, or Innovation? It's Hollywood vs. High Tech. Hollywood studios and record companies are putting pressure on the makers of consumer electronics to come up with technology to prevent the playing of copyrighted material. [New York Times: Technology]
"But Mr. Chernin of the News Corporation suggested that matters might be different if the tables were turned. "Let's say I decide to broadcast on my network the code for how to make Intel chips or Microsoft software," he said. "I think they'd find a way to stop it."[link]
Well, gosh Mr. Chernin, someone already handed out the code for an OS, it's called Unix and it seems to be doing just fine.
Golly, there is a correllary between people buying more entertainment product and people being able to pirate it... But they feel that they are being robbed of revenue, even though record sales TANKED after Napster was shut down.
I'd love to see one, just ONE, company buck the trend and open up their content. I know that Rage Against The Machine did it with their music, and sales of the record still did great. I'd like to see more artists take that chance.
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