On 4/19/06, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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" > > What a stupid feature: Hey, buy my box, it will prevent you from doing > what you want. Until using this will be enforced by law or something, > people will never buy such a box.
Hell yeah they will. Content providers will *LOVE* this idea and it will go about it something like this: - Adult content provider sells free porn access, but you will have to use this box, for both decryption and the no-skip-ads feature. - After that, some movie channel tries the same - Maybe a cable provider could do the same (Watch TV for free, but watch ads) - A cable provider offers this box and a "small fee for premium content" - All cable providers switch to this model - It because mandatory by law OK, so maybe the last couple probably won't happen, but the first few do seem plausible. Give the people porn, and they will follow Regards, Wander. > > > Dischi > > -- > Students nowadays, complaining they only get 5MBs of disk space! In my > day we were lucky if we had one file, and that was /dev/null. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
