On Thursday 26 April 2001 13:44, you wrote:
> The PC software industry is suffering a lot because of copying, the are
> investing millions of dollars to make new copy-protections etc.
Their rating scheme is wrong !!
They take the aproach of sold 20 products but statistics indicate fifteen
copies were made, so they take their calculator and say: "This means a loss
of 15 x price-of-product." However, everybody knows that of those 15 copies
maybeone or two were going to be sold if the copy protection was good enough.
Most copiers wouldn't buy a to high priced original, however they would buy a
cheap one. I almost always buy the games once the price as dropped (even if
that means that I have to wait a year (or two))
> One of the reasons that DVD is becoming the standard and DIVX isn't is
> because
> DVD is very expensive to copy, DIVX isn't.
> (Yeah I know, you can convert DVD to DIVX yada-yada-yada)
DVD is more a data carrier (like CD-ROM) and DivX is just a coding scheme for
movies. Besides DVD movies are much easier to use for dummy's while DivX
still demands some form a technical expertice to install and use. Even
12-o'clock-blinkers can play DVD movies but will never succeed with DivX as
it is for he moment.
Another point: DivX is copyrighted M$ and not a standard and appernetly (M$
isn't going to allow other producers). DVD movie encryption is slightly
free-er but with license troubles for not commercial producers.
David
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