Canuck57 wrote:[color=blue]
> "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
> news:Xns9BE947E011AE5thisnthatroadrunnern@85.214.105.209...[color=green]
>> "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in
>> news:OQNwvMZuJHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
>>[color=darkred]
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>[/color]

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