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To: JayPC who wrote (8164)	8/23/2000 12:18:08 PM
From: lml	Respond to of 12823

The majority of the media on TV is legally recordable for personal consumption. I can record Survivor without fear of retribution. I just can't rebroadcast it. I don't see why Shaw Cable and CBS would go to the expense to encrypt media that is legally recordable and has little to no value after the original broadcast." Yes, Jay, you can legally record onto disk for personal, but not commercial use. And the industry is comfortable with letting you do so with Survivor or the like. But the industry is far less comfortable permitting you to do the same with a first run movie recently release in the theaters, or on video, because this is where the opportunity for commercial profit is greatest. So a distinction must be made in this discussion between recordings onto DVD disk of shows like Survivor v. movies like The Perfect Storm shortly after their immediate release. The likelihood of your creating a market for your bootlegged Survivor DVD is much smaller than one for The Perfect Storm immediately after its release. Please appreciate this distinction. OT. Is anybody having problems with Yahoo recently, or is it just me? I've been having problems accessing my mail, connection to newswire stories from my front page, as well as read a "select few" posts on the Yahoo thread. Anybody having the same problems. TIA

To: JayPC who wrote (8164)	8/23/2000 12:41:02 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

"I don't see why Shaw Cable and CBS would go to the expense to encrypt media that is legally recordable and has little to no value after the original broadcast." Jay- I think you already know this. I just thought I would toss it out for lurkers to read. Good point above, and I doubt that is what MPAA(not really a MSO problem) is worried about. What they are worried about is you paying $4 for an on-Demand movie(that the MPAA already milked $8/ticket for), recording it in PERFECT digital format, and handing it to your neighbor at N/C. And they are deathly afraid of a viewer putting it on their hardrive for a hundred million people to pull off a perfect copy at N/C. ___________________ Thanks for the mini-rant compliment. I'll say it another way here on the LMT instead of FCTF thread and leave it alone for awhile. My point. Make it VOD. Charge a BUCK. And no one would bother to "steal" their precious junk. Some might say, "But how's Kenneau Reeves going to make $15 million for six months of lousy acting killing cops with trench coat weapons while playing that cool, cool rock music because he is sooo cool?" I say I don't care. Bottom line- If Hollywood loses the pipes, they lose control of our tastes and will lose the outrageous revenue streams they get worldwide. And I'm hoping, maybe naively, that once they lose control of the pipes, then we may revert back to a society where quality counts. Hollywood knows this and have an army of lawyers and lobbyists to control technology and politicians so it does not advance. -MikeM(From Florida) VOD- video on demand MSO- cable companies RIAA- recording industry association of America MPAA- motion picture association of America LMT- last mile technologies FCTF- Frank's thread of high level quality technology discussions