IP: Son of DIVX: DVD Copy Control

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>From: capek@us.ibm.com
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>To: Dave@farber.net
>Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:08:08 -0500
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>Here's a nice, readable, and funny summary of the motivations behind the
>DeCSS lawsuits and such...
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>http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker000127.htm?ref=fwec
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>Son of DIVX: DVD Copy Control
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>   By Rob Landley
>
>   GAITHERSBURG, MD (January 27, 2000) -- Every once in a while, a Fool just
>  has to sit back and go, "Wow, that's really dumb." I shouldn't be
>   surprised when dumb things come out of Hollywood. Robert Heinlein once
>wrote a morality tale about how an overly militaristic society can be a bad
>   thing, and based on that, Hollywood came out with the campy action movie
>Starship Troopers (i.e., "Bevery Hills 90210 goes to war").
>
>   But then the DVD Copy Control Authority (a name straight out of a James
>Bond movie if you ask me) attempted to sue the ENTIRE INTERNET. It's like a
>   class action lawsuit in reverse. Even for Hollywood, this has to set some
>  kind of record for sheer bulk corporate idiocy. The mind boggles.
>
>      ....
>