Text 2490, 88 rader
Skriven 2005-02-12 09:27:12 av Adam Flinton (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 2480 av Rich (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: MS and Macrovision join forces
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From: Adam Flinton <adam@NOSPAM_softfab.com>

Rich wrote:
>    Legal world wide is not a humor.  It's funny that you think it would be.
>

Nope, it is a humour.

Is windows a legal good in North Korea?

Adam

> Rich
>
>
>     "Adam Flinton" <adam_NO_@_SPAM_softfab.com
>     <mailto:adam_NO_@_SPAM_softfab.com>> wrote in message
>     news:420c8318$1@w3.nls.net...
>     Rich wrote:
>
>      >    You didn't answer the question asked.  Sure, if you have a video
>      > capture device that ignores or strips macrovision then as far as
>      > software is concerned it simply doesn't exist and any software would
>      > support it.  The question asked though was whether there was free
>      > software that supported the case when macrovision protected
>     content is
>      > presented to the software.
>      >
>
>     Show me some PC hardware which does present the pulses etc to the
>     software. None of my PCI TV cards do this.
>
>     So is MS going to make it part of being "Windows friendly hardware"
>     that
>     if you're getting a TV stream in, the device must report macrovision?
>
>     Why would a TV card maker put Automatic Gain Control into a TV Card? No
>     TV'es come with it (otherwise macrovision wouldn't work at all) so why
>     would TV card makers?
>
>
>      >    You also didn't ask the second question asked.  Is this supported
>      > legally?
>
>     OK in your bizarre land, AGC must be built into any device which is a
>     analog recording device (under your DCMA) but that's the beauty of a PC
>     in that a TV card can simply be used to watch TV or record.
>
>     Imagine just for a laugh if you were to put AGC cicuits into all TV'es,
>     that would be a marvellous way of killing Macrovision.
>
>     Any TV card maker which put AGC into it's TV cards would see it's sales
>     fall off a cliff because people would chuck their VHS into the player &
>     turn on their TV watching program, hit play on their VHS &........oh
>     look at the quality of that "good".
>
>      >  Please don't answer that there is some jurisdiction somewhere
>      > with whatever rules.  Let's make it simple for you.  Legally
>     world wide.
>      >
>
>     I know you may not get out of the states much but are you cognisant of
>     the concept of "sovereignty". Assuming you are, I assume "Legally world
>     wide" was some sort of attempt at humour.
>
>     A can of beer is not legal world wide. A can of coke is not legal world
>     wide.
>
>     American beef is not legal world wide.
>
>     Microsoft Windows itself is not legal world wide (how are the sales
>     into
>     North Korea?).
>
>     All that matters is the economic power of the countries/groups of
>     countries (e.g. the EU) & what their laws are & how much you want to
>     sell into that market. As it is the US market is now smaller than
>     the EU
>     one & is vastly smaller than the "World less the US" one.
>
>     Why do you think most DVD players are now "region free" (at least
>     outside of the US)? Coz we're a bigger market & we don't want region
>     encoding?
>
>     Adam

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