On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:13 PM, P. J. Alling<[email protected]> wrote: > If Microsoft had told the RIAA to go pound sand, the RIAA would have had no > realistic choice except to go pound sand. No one /forced/ Microsoft to do > anything. >
That is unfortunately not the case. If MS wanted support for movie playback, especially Blu-Ray, they needed to do what the RIAA and MPAA want as their members control the DVD and Blu-Ray specs. Licensing matters. And several of those corporations make MS look small (Sony for starters). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
