Steve Jobs wants Hollywood to boycott HD-DVD

Androlight used our news submit to tell us "Pirate proof??? Nothing is pirate proof. If you can view it, you can record it. It's sad to watch how the entertainment buisness wastes their money on "copy-protections" that ends up as inconvience for the legitimate consumer. I hope Hollywood learned the leason from RIAA. Copy protected audio-cd's has poor compatiblity and can't be copied to the computer (legal in most countries) so the consumers don't want it. It makes p2p even more appealing. Forget about copyprotection, DRM, etc. It does'nt work. Make a product that gives the consumer value for money."

Mr. Jobs wants his fellow Hollywood execs to not license movies for the new format until the tech world can assure that it is pirate-proof. According to the report, he says that as a last-resort, computer companies should not include high-definition DVD burners in new PCs.

I just don't understand this fear out there that consumers are going to bankrupt the major motion picture studios with their computers and the Internet. First, they put the movie in the theater and break box office records all the time. Then, they send them out to rental stores and make another killing. Finally, they peddle the same product to cable and network television for yet another bundle. Read the whole story over at the Mac Observer.

Source: Mac Observer

No posts to display