August 31, 2005 12:21 PM PDT
Maxtor bypasses PC with home network drive
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It'll be interesting to see if there's any fallout from this, particularly as Hollywood wants to start charging seperate fees for movies played on different devices and in different rooms (i.e a DVD will be tied to one player and one TV - you'd need to buy a second copy to view it in a different room).
So unless the family wants to watch 2 or 3 home movies on different screens, anyone who does this could be (as the intro to every new DVD now says) fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison - and will be tracked down by the FBI (after all they've got field agents just sitting around doing nothing), even if you're not copying the movie for profit.. ofcourse some could see threatening your own customers with prison and massive fines as an unusual PR tactic, but no one ever accused Hollywood of being all that clever.
Put 1 and 1 together and Hollywood could eventually use this technology to allow a single person only to view a movie from one specific angle and if anyone else wants to view it, they'll either have to pay extra for viewing it at another angle, or wait until the first person is finished viewing it and eventually pay extra for 'more than one viewing of a movie'.
Ah, greed for money is such a wonderful thing.
It'll be interesting to see if there's any fallout from this, particularly as Hollywood wants to start charging seperate fees for movies played on different devices and in different rooms (i.e a DVD will be tied to one player and one TV - you'd need to buy a second copy to view it in a different room).
So unless the family wants to watch 2 or 3 home movies on different screens, anyone who does this could be (as the intro to every new DVD now says) fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison - and will be tracked down by the FBI (after all they've got field agents just sitting around doing nothing), even if you're not copying the movie for profit.. ofcourse some could see threatening your own customers with prison and massive fines as an unusual PR tactic, but no one ever accused Hollywood of being all that clever.
Put 1 and 1 together and Hollywood could eventually use this technology to allow a single person only to view a movie from one specific angle and if anyone else wants to view it, they'll either have to pay extra for viewing it at another angle, or wait until the first person is finished viewing it and eventually pay extra for 'more than one viewing of a movie'.
Ah, greed for money is such a wonderful thing.
It'll be interesting to see if there's any fallout from this, particularly as Hollywood wants to start charging seperate fees for movies played on different devices and in different rooms (i.e a DVD will be tied to one player and one TV - you'd need to buy a second copy to view it in a different room).
So unless the family wants to watch 2 or 3 home movies on different screens, anyone who does this could be (as the intro to every new DVD now says) fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison - and will be tracked down by the FBI (after all they've got field agents just sitting around doing nothing), even if you're not copying the movie for profit.. ofcourse some could see threatening your own customers with prison and massive fines as an unusual PR tactic, but no one ever accused Hollywood of being all that clever.
Put 1 and 1 together and Hollywood could eventually use this technology to allow a single person only to view a movie from one specific angle and if anyone else wants to view it, they'll either have to pay extra for viewing it at another angle, or wait until the first person is finished viewing it and eventually pay extra for 'more than one viewing of a movie'.
Ah, greed for money is such a wonderful thing.