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Technology Stocks : C-Cube -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BillyG who wrote (48483)	1/26/2000 5:00:00 AM
From: Maya	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50808

How about Cube hiring this Norwegian kid? Apple should bring back the HW decode lest they will suffer this negative campaign which will sap their new found glory!!! A 16-year-old Norwegian boy was arrested Tuesday for doing what the U.S. movie industry wouldn't do and giving Linux users a way to play DVD disks on their computers. For this, he faces two to three years in prison. More audacious still are widespread reports that surfaced the same day about how Apple's (AAPL) newest IMacs -- the ones in the dreamy commercials with the black-leather-jacket-Jurrassic-Park guy narrating while full-motion video plays on the candy-colored computer, the ones labelled "DVD" for digital video -- actually can't play DVDs so well. The video and sound drift apart, it seems. So should the cuffs really be on the kid with the free program that works, that fills a gaping software need, or on Apple, for passing off machines that cost upwards of $1,200 as DVD players when, in fact, they don't function as DVD players at all? And will anyone step up to get this DVD synchronization/deciphering stuff right for once? upside.com