> Why not be upset that They (I know--omenous word ;) thought you shouldn't
> be able to make fair-use copies of your own DVDs? It's not as if you
> can't functionally copy DVD's today. Sure, if you just tape the output
> of a DVD you've lost some of the features of the original, but hey!
> most people just want to watch a movie, anyway.
except that if they wanted to watch VHS movies they would probably have
spent $100-$150 on a VCR.. I bought a DVD player and a Sony VEGA digital
TV for quality, and it's awesome..
> I know this sounds inflamatory, but .. geeze, it's OK to say "I have
> rights too." Just because They're playing by the rules of the legel
> system certainly doesn't mean (a) we have to like these rules or
> (b) feel sorry if sometimes the big corporations don't get what they
> want.
I don't feel sorry for them at all, I just don't want to suffer.
> Let's face it--closed systems and open software are at some fundimental
> level incompatible. Three things (as I figure it) can "give" to have
> a working situation:
>
> 1. people open up their systems
> 2. the open source folks can never hope to have a wholly open system
> (since people will want to interact with 1's).
> 3. you compromise and run closed software on an open system.
>
> I personally do a lot of 3, but I would really prefer if there were
> more 1's out there. (Hell--I work for a company that has products that
> are mostly 3's, that is closed software running on open standards).
> Does anyone care? Am I just inviting flames here, or is there some
> substance to my arguments? I like to think so. . .
I agree with you, and pretty much everyone else who responded to my
message - BUT what's happening here is exactly what the movie industry
was afraid of. It was inevitable, of course - any time you add a
technology to a personal computer you can pretty much give up on it being
kept secret for too long..
through the use of DVD decoder cards, we could still have a purely open
system that played DVD's on a PC - it's only software decoders (which suck
horribly, btw, in comparison to hardware) that can't be fully open.. It's
a compromise, but it's probably one that will have to be made time and
time again. Would you prefer a closed-source software player, or a
decoder card with an open-source player application?
later,
-Justin
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