I guess the upside is that it's easier to install additional codecs and containers on a rooted device. As a music lover, one of my motivations in installing cyanogen on my device was the FLAC support.
It now becomes easier for me to transcode my existing DVDs, potentially using a container format that isn't available in stock android. Shame that, when I might otherwise have been willing to pay for the convenience of somebody else transcoding a movie I already own and streaming it to my mobile. As we all know, music lovers make terrible customers, so I guess they won't be losing too much money here. On 23 May 2011 21:36, Chris Adamson <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 23, 12:10 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > We can all put two and two together though. These are not the rules of > > Google, they are the rules of the movie industry! > > Indeed. Seems a lot like HDCP, where the system has to "trust" any > device connected to it, for fear that the VGA or DVI cable connected > to your computer might be a dedicated copying device. No reason that > an unknown Android device might not be exactly the same thing. But > you're right, it's the movie industry's thinking, not Google's, and > they should have better things to worry about (like pissing off their > customers and driving them to piracy with deliberately-crippled > products). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : [email protected] <[email protected]>mail: [email protected] vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright twitter: @thecoda "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
