"DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote in message
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> "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in
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>>> Which pretty much agrees with what you said, Mike.
>>>
>>> Still - they could have done it knowingly, n'est-ce pas?
>>>
>>> I also wonder if it will be appealed further by MS...
>>>
>>> Maybe we could also start a long OT subthread about the iniquities
>>> and inequities of out patent system and other IP systems. (I hope
>>> not, and I promise not to post further if it happens!)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom[/color]
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>>
>> Gene
>>
>> That is what I was thinking exactly. There can't be too many ways to
>> make a system that prevents piracy..[/color]
>
> (Not turning this into an IP discussion) you're right there can't be too
> many ways.
>
> Look at the Tivo lawsuit against Dish Network because of some s/w issue
> related to how the Dish DVR works...........There really can't be too
> many different ways to pause/rewind live TV. You write the picture/audio
> data to the HD, and then play it back delayed by x amount of time.[/color]

But it is also why open standards are best. I don't buy proprietary, and
wish more would do the same.

There should be no reason other than vendor locking and $$$ greed that a
user cannot copy a movie frrom Tivo to Microsoft to Apple to Linux and it
plays.