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News Corp. exec focuses on piracy
"I am here to call for a partnership that can lead to long-term explosive growth, Chernin said. Stealing content is destroying opportunities for digital entertainment. ... Business will be crippled" |
He indicated the file trading programs are a source of headache to the music industry and eventually that headache will spread to the movie industry unless media and tech companies can act together to encrypt anything that carries a digital signal and in the past that marriage has been successful in preventing piracy.
You have media companies that are hesistant to support companie(s) that produce DVD Burners and DVD Recorders and on the other side you have computer companie(s) that are proud show off their hardware in the latest computers.
So is there a solution? I have always thought that if you tell people that they can't do this they will always find a way around it just to prove you wrong.
Source: MSNBC NEWS
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Guest,
Thu 21 Nov 2002 21:34
Funny how a consortium of companies including news corporations complain about piracy when news outlets just copy each other or merge therefore the news is repeated crap instead of anything new. News outlets have enough problems they should not care about piracy of music and movies.
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Guest,
Fri 22 Nov 2002 00:51
Yeah like Sony's entertainment arm not exactly seeing eye to eye with it's technology manufacturing arm. Basically people like the MPAA etc would love to have all copying hardware locked in some way to prevent you being able to copy anything. But the hardware arm knows that by doing so it will lose sales. Catch 22.
Any system put in place can be circumvented. If they make it too hard to modify equiptment they will kill a lot of sales potential. I am not saying everyone on the street is a potential pirate. It's just that a lot of people don't appreciate having their freedom to do what they want with their hardware taken away.
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Guest,
Fri 22 Nov 2002 01:47
People should have the right to copy things as long as they don't sell it for a profit. I would say FUCK the News Corp Executive. It's just amazing that they want to lock hardware devices to prevent copying. Why don't they want to lock Professional mastering equipment to prevent professional pirates from being able to mass copy and sell. Once again the industry is more worried about regulating the little guy than the big professional pirate.
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Guest,
Sat 23 Nov 2002 16:03
They do this because the 'little guy' is far more common than the big guy. It's illegal to copy and then give away too. They want to stop you copying your stuff and giving it to your friends. That's understandable.
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Guest,
Sun 24 Nov 2002 14:56
dvdyke if they lock your copying hardware it would basically be aplayer and a peice of junk. if you listen to mr.chernin's comments closely he does'nt want you to make backups.and uofm3000 i think sony wants to lock their sacd plants.
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