Former Apple man calls for HD and Blu-Ray boycott

D4rk0n3 is on a roll and used our news submit to tell us about this story from over at the Inquirer. Seems like someone that used to work for Apple is trying to give us a warning about the demise of Fair Use as we know it, if we decide to make the leap to Blue Laser products. He is saying what we have known for sometime, that this new format carries some serious baggage with it, baggage you may not wish to carry. But anyway, here is what the article had to say about this Blue Laser AACS situation.

THE MAN responsible for Apple's Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and iDVD products, Mike Evangelist has called for a boycott of the HD standard. Evangelist said that the AACS specification for the HD standard would mean a complete removal of the concept of fair use. Writing in his blog, he said that music and film industry were setting up a system that will completely control how, when and where punters can use content that they buy."Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray have embraced this draconian system, and the studios are salivating at the prospect of you never actually being able to own content again. My reaction to this abomination is simple: no way in hell. I will not buy any product that uses this crap," he said.

Well, thanks for the news flash there, of course those that frequent this site have figured out long ago, that Digital Rights Management or DRM has nothing to do with piracy- it's all about control. When we think of streams we have a certain concept, when those behind AACS and Managed Copy think of streams, they think of them in terms of revenue streams. By the way, here is a direct link to the blog article. Looks like it's getting a lot of attention, this is a good sign.

Source: The Inquirer