On Aug 8, 2009, at 20:54 , Thomas Bohn wrote:
On Aug 9, 2009, at 4:32 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
Licensing matters. And several of those corporations make MS look
small (Sony for starters).
Once I rented "Pirates of the Caribbean" and tried to watch it on my
Mac, with a licensed and legal DVD player software. But it didn't
work. That is the annoying part of the fact that paranoid companies
are in control of those specs and can do almost whatever they want.
Yeah, I think that preventing copying on a perfect copy machine is
impossible and trying to do so, is a lost cause and a huge waste of
money. Which we, as good and honest customers, have to pay.
That may have had more to do with the DVD you rented. I've never had a
DVD (or CD) not play on my Mac here in the USA. But I get from
observation of claims that DVDs are made to only play in a certain
area of the world. Don't remember what that scheme is called.
Your Mac may not have been set up to play the DVD coded for European
players. Or, as I said, the rental agency may have given you a non-
universal DVD that would play anywhere.
I use Apple's software DVD Player, that comes with OSX, at all times,
cause it works at all times, for me, here, in Seattle. And, though I
haven't used it since I got it a year ago, I have software that will
copy "any" DVD that I'd have to run under Windows XP on my Mac. Not
having used it, I can see now that it was a waste of money. They now
have software for the Mac that will do the same thing — make backup
copies of your personally owned DVDs. (wink wink nod wink wink) ;-p
Joseph McAllister
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There is no off position to the genius switch.
Genius can, however, be observed as insanity.
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