Jason Tackaberry wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 11:52 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/19/philips_enforced_ads_patent/
Can this be avoided if it comes into force in future freevo releases, we
could use a slogan like "take back your channel hopping"
This is ludicrous:
"A viewer may either watch the advertisements or pay a fee in
order to be able to change channels or fast forward when the
advertisements are being displayed," Philips' potential patent
states.
What's next? They will require a network connection to your couch they
they can automatically strap you in and pry your eyes open while the
commercials are playing?
Honestly, this is insulting. And they know it:
Philips admits this might by "greatly resented by the viewers"
"Greatly resented" is a crashing understatement.
The sad truth is that consumers are stupid. There will be enough of them
to buy that shit. If I weren't right, there wouldn't have been already
sold things like copy-protected audio-CDs (violating the Red Book once
published by Philips & Sony), region-protected and CSS-protected DVDs,
not to talk about upcoming HD-DVDs, BluRay-discs, TV sets and Monitors
with HDCP interface, set-top-boxes with the same shitty interface which
will allow *them* to switch off HD content when attempoting to record
it, or what else. If these fuckers with pockets always full of money
which call themselves "freaks" and "early adopters" wouldn't buy all
this shit from the entrtainment industry, these tehnologies never would
have paid for them, the would have dropped them already. It's like
democracy, even if some of us don't like it, just because if others do,
these evil things keep existing...
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