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Originally posted by jaguar
[ I was looking at the stats for the DVD-killer Blu-wave thingy, they seem to be getting allot more serious with copy protection, opinions?
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They're absolutely serious about it, and Fritz Hollings is back on the bandwagon with Congressional support for it, too. Before too long Gates and Microsoft will couple their "Secure Windows" campaign to it, and pretty soon owning your own computer instead of effectively renting one from Microsoft will be as suspect as being your own gunsmith. After all, what's to stop you from doing something nefarious (==unprofitable for the Beast) ?
Keep an eye on the government/Microsoft connection: MS just replaced their head data security guy with the government suit who was replaced with the previous MS security guy.
The RIAA/MPAA crowd of explotive middlemen are scared shitless that their monopoly is about to disappear.
They're serious enough that they're willing to obsolete the *entire* array of currently available and already purchased HDTV equipment because it doen't have a copy lock on it.