What the media cartel wants (was: HP Drives ...)

2002-06-18 Thread bscott
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, at 3:29pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... all Disney really wants is for the piracy to stop ... This I disagree with. From their behavior, the media cartel (i.e., RIAA and MPAA members, and other, similar groups) wants to control (i.e., profit from) every aspect of media

Re: What the media cartel wants (was: HP Drives ...)

2002-06-18 Thread Jon Hall
I tend to agree with Ben. Remember that Disney also was well behind the Sonny Bono extension of the copyright period to 90 ears, er, ah, years. It is not just piracy. md -- = Jon maddog Hall Executive Director

Re: What the media cartel wants (was: HP Drives ...)

2002-06-18 Thread bscott
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, at 4:04pm, Jon Hall wrote: Remember that Disney also was well behind the Sonny Bono extension of the copyright period to 90 ears, er, ah, years. For those who are not aware, maddog is referring to Disney's practice of paying Congress to extend copyright for 10 to 20

Re: What the media cartel wants (was: HP Drives ...)

2002-06-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
And I thought he was referring to MS Windows :-) On 18 Jun 2002 at 16:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark and copyright of Walt Disney Corporation. Use of the term Mickey Mouse in this message is in no way intended to imply ownership or license. Please do

Re: What the media cartel wants (was: HP Drives ...)

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Buskey
It's kind of ironic they're switching to Linux. They used to use diskless Sun systems. If Sun did Linux, they might still be using sun. It's also ironic that Disney gets to keep their characters out of the public domain. I guess they remember the $$$ they've made off public domain