The entertainment industry been very slow to implement any kind of new technology that might result in piracy, and as a result, the law-abiding consumer suffers. Look how long it took Disney to accept DVDs. They tried to use Divx as a piracy protection scheme, but then found that DVDs were taking off without their unwanted protection. So they finally switched. The industry, both in music and movies, are so afraid of pirates that they reject new technology, despite the fact that piracy probably results in less than 5 percent of total sales. And they still haven't figured out that pirates will always exist, no matter how good the protection. Look at the reluctance to accept DAT, a now failed format (essentially), or recently, MP3. Finally the music studios are coming around to MP3, but if they had been there in the pioneering stages, they could have grabbed a bigger piece of the pie with ease, but instead they will struggle against the "infrastructure" of the small guys that started the movement.
Why the hell they object to allowing Linux users to playing legitimate DVDs on their computers I can't understand. |
