Comments | bludragon: Fighting Open Source, Even if it Costs the Company

bludragon

Fighting Open Source, Even if it Costs the Company

Sep 01, 2006 20:59

"This is not a gamer's blog, but I felt this was important enough to list here:

Sony's PSP and new PS3 Engineered to Treat Audience as Potential Criminals"I guess we shouldn't expect any less from the same people who ignited the international DRM controversy with their music CD malware ( Read more... )

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Are you referring to... chessobsessed September 12 2006, 02:12:50 UTC

the claims that the Sony Malware itself is copyright infringement? Claims are that their malware contained traces of the Lame engine -popularly known for its mp3 conversion abilities?

Re: Are you referring to... chessobsessed September 12 2006, 02:29:53 UTC

http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/

Good article link by the way. chessobsessed September 12 2006, 02:47:13 UTC

This is one reason I was entirely willing to forego HDMI when I purchased last years high dollar receiver from Yamaha instead of this years HDMI compatible unit. Price aside -which I did consider- why should I be inhibited from sending an HDMI feed from the receiver to an HDMI recording dvd recorder ...though they dont exist...?

Similarly no DVD recorder offers digital audio inputs... despite the fact that todays receivers are perfectly capable of passing the digital output and do... I can send video in the living room to my receiver in the bedroom AND enjoy DTS or Dolby Digital, but if I want to record that same source I'm forced to record the analog output on my satellite PVR's RECORDING if I choose to back it up? It's already there! Video too! You can decide you want to break open the thing and pop the hard drive in your computer, but why the hassel? Let us "dump" those digital recordings onto DVD!

Re: Good article link by the way. bludragon September 12 2006, 13:16:34 UTC

Thank you for the nice words.

Intellectual property is the big battlefield for lawyers and corporations right now. Businesses have decided to take the classic strategy of "litigate rather than innovate" because, frankly, they can't trust the unknown.

There is a common corporate belief that "You should always try to be the second man into a new field, unless you have far more money and muscle than anyone else. Otherwise, you'll suffer the way Apple did with the release of the Newton."

It seems most managers feel it's cheaper and safer just to sue the pants off of anyone trying to do something new with their product, than to accommodate these new demands on the customer's terms. ("Too risky.")

Needless to say, this is a great way of pissing off customers. But since not enough people are currently using this technology in the way you and a few others do, they don't really care that much.

Fortunately, once the demand rises, it will happen. Just as Apple produced iTunes...