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Gates describes Blu-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« on: 18 October 2005, 10:21 »
http://www.betanews.com/article/Gates_Bluray_DRM_is_AntiConsumer/1129572265

Wow......Bill Gates for once gives a flying fuck about consumer rights - but only because his financial interests are at stake. It's hardly surprising - Intel & Microsoft have decided to support the (IMO) inferior HD DVD format, and it hasn't taken long for them to start slagging off blu-ray. And either I'm imagining things, but I thought that content providers were pissed off that the DVD format's copy protection is, for lack of a better term, a joke. So blu-ray would be rather attractive to content providers from that point of view.

(EDIT: And it is just a teeny bit ironic that Bill expects us to bend over and accept HIS DRM, but someone else's is just plain evil. How the hell do people get away with such hypocrisy????)
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #1 on: 18 October 2005, 11:57 »
Yeah, it's stupid. But only until someone cracks HIS drm in the consumer interest, and he calls them evil.
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Re: Gates describes Blu-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #2 on: 18 October 2005, 18:01 »
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How the hell do people get away with such hypocrisy????
Because people generally don't give a crap about such things whenever they're out to buy something / etc.

It's terrible.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #3 on: 19 October 2005, 04:06 »
Well, I read the article, and it seems to be Bill just saying more nothing to support his product.

However, this doesn't change the fact that Blu-ray must ******* die.  When Sony put the self-destruct sequence in the player spec, Blu-ray became totally evil.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #4 on: 19 October 2005, 04:28 »
It's a fucking waste and an environmental nightmare, too.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #5 on: 19 October 2005, 05:05 »
DRM dont bother no Kintaro because I find that the crackin is still all well and good.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #6 on: 19 October 2005, 15:33 »
:) do you remember why Hitler
failed ??

BECAUSE HE JUST WOULD NOT LISTEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


just like Bill Gates he must be a retard to not go with the right stuff and
bug-fix and etc... you get the point like every normal human being
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #7 on: 20 October 2005, 02:36 »
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just like Bill Gates he must be a retard to not go with the right stuff


This time Bill Gates is going with the right stuff.  Oh I'm sure he has his own reasons, but Blu-Ray is evil.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #8 on: 21 October 2005, 09:51 »
it doesnt matter which one is best, its allways the one microbastards support that become a "standard". they offer out the box supports for their fav one and windows suckups will use it cause its easier. doesnt matter how good or crap it is. if they only suppoerted AMD processors, intel would only be used by linux users and people arsed to write windows drivers and make it work.
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« Reply #9 on: 21 October 2005, 12:44 »
Forget what Billy has to say about it... DRM is in and of itself evil, and the new shiz is becoming downright satanic.
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Re: Uno
« Reply #10 on: 23 October 2005, 22:03 »
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Forget what Billy has to say about it... DRM is in and of itself evil, and the new shiz is becoming downright satanic.


Now to think about it, the right choice is probably C:  None of the above.  Maybe it's time to say to hell with both new formats (but especially the blu-ray).
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #11 on: 24 October 2005, 12:07 »
I don't care much for them, the change in storage space doesn't seem enough.

DVD's replaced videos, HDDVD and Blueray are good for HD tvs but you can't backup your hard drive on them. And who owns a HD tv?

Games need more storage tho. Hell, debian will fit onto a single disc :D .
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #12 on: 25 October 2005, 10:42 »
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:) do you remember why Hitler
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Yeah, because he was addicted to meth and dying from syphilis. Learned that from the History Channel.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #13 on: 26 October 2005, 02:20 »
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I don't care much for them, the change in storage space doesn't seem enough.

DVD's replaced videos, HDDVD and Blueray are good for HD tvs but you can't backup your hard drive on them. And who owns a HD tv?

Games need more storage tho. Hell, debian will fit onto a single disc :D .
Not enough change in storage?
CD-'bout 1GB max
DVD- 'bout 9.5GB max
HD DVD- 30GB max
Blu-ray- 50GB max
So a change of 20.5GB min isn't enough? And why can't you back up your hard drive on 50GB? Just how much stuff do you have on your comp?
I agree though the DRM will suck. No one thinks of the pirates any more.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #14 on: 26 October 2005, 03:33 »
Backing up 50GB at 2x speed. Now that's a punishment fit for gates,
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