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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8212)	8/25/2000 12:34:58 PM
From: lml	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

MikeM: I don't understand why you seem to have such a "microchip" on your shoulder with respect to this issue. Have you been "burned" by some IP issue in the past or something? For semantic purposes, you assert "[t]hey are not protective of their content" but rather that they are "protective of distribution," as if the two are mutually exclusive. I'm here to assert back at you that the two are not. Distribution is a form of content protection. As I described in the post to which you responded, if you read it, protection of IP rights is difficult. It is apparent to you & others here that mere encryption at the source is not going to provide sufficient protection, and even if it did, the studios have every right to maximize protection of their (and the artists') IP by working with the distributors of such content, and the manufacturers of equipment than deliver such content directly to the consumer to protect it against unlawful use. If you view particular content as "crappy," may I suggest the novel of idea of not watching it, let alone paying to view it. If in-fact there was a fail-safe way of protecting IP at the source, I think it would be reasonable to conclude that the entertainment industry would be less intrusive in the control of the various media of distribution of their content. But, unfortunate to the argument here, this is not the case.

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8212)	8/25/2000 2:03:17 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 12823

OT Movie content providers have no competition. They dictate what you see. Any industry can be -I believe- replicated outside the USA. Credible competition to industries that the US dominated exists. (Please hold your nationalistics views) We have examples: Civil aeroplanes Boeing vs Airbus. Cars The Big Three vs the Japanese. Wireless Motorola vs GSM crowd In film production the US has no competition at all. Hollywood cannot be replicated anywhere in the world. That's is a stregth. But it can be also a weakness.