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Your Blu-Ray Player and Your Rights
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28/12/2006 15:39:57
Al Doman (Online)
M3 Enterprises Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 
 
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Windows
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Multimedia
Title:
Your Blu-Ray Player and Your Rights
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From UT front page:

http://mostly-linux.blogspot.com/2006/06/top-5-reasons-blu-ray-will-never-be-in.html
http://mostly-linux.blogspot.com/2006/07/blu-ray-follow-up.html
http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/08/10/blu/index.html

I didn't realize that, if I buy a Blu-Ray player (for entertainment, but more likely for PC)

- I'm giving content providers (and unspecified others) the right to continuously monitor what I'm doing with it

- I'm giving them the right to disable my player (immediately and remotely) without notice if they don't like the way I'm using it.

It looks like HD-DVD is leaning this way as well.

Combine this with the insidious effects of Vista DRM and we're all heading into a real mess.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

The Reg has picked the above article up as well: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/vista_drm_analysis/
Regards. Al

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