Comments on: Home electronics giants launch antipiracy strategy

Taking aim at Microsoft and Apple, consumer electronics companies say they'll build their own copy protection system.

[simcity1976]

Shoot me now

This is going to end up bad for the market, I can already hear all of my friends say things like: "I wonder if this new release movie will play on my brand dvd player, or on my computer".

They should have (1) open standard, and if a better one comes out make that open standard. kind of like vcd, and svcd.

[mudphud]

Too late?

Of course we wouldn't have this problem if this same group
hadn't been so greedy to begin with. They wanted absolute
control of when and where you could play their products and
new ways to charge us. Now they are upset they don't own the
standard. They only licensed content to Apple to start with
because they didn't see it as possibly being successful. Good
luck.

[bobby_brady]

This will bomb!

What a joke.
Stick to mp3's.

[jhorvatic]

iPod user can't shop anywhere else even if they wanted

iPod users or Mac users in general can't shop anywhere else
even if it was possible. All the other services are PC ONLY!
You can't even enter there sites let alone buy any music even if
the iPod was open. Microsoft requires IE 6.0 which Microsoft
convienently doesn't make for Macs. So why should Apple open
there doors when everyone else has there doors LOCKED!