From: Tony Williams 

Here's a small flicker of hope:

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/19/technology/bittorrent/index.htm

Why Hollywood loves BitTorrent

> And yet talk to Hollywood and the establishment that should be
> crushing him seems in awe instead: "He's obviously a very brilliant
> guy," says Dan Glickman, president of Motion Picture Association of
> America, which leads the charge in cracking down on film piracy. The
> BitTorrent guys, says, Glickman, "have some revolutionary ideas and
> interesting concepts and we have been talking with them."

--
Tony

Geo wrote:
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:4355b65d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>> True enough, but I'd prefer to go straight to "something else"
>> rather than put up with a sidetracking turf battle between media
>> corporations and file-sharing.
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> Did you know filesharing networks have doubled in size over the past
> year?
>
>
>> Intriguing idea. A bit like giving away razor blades so people will
>> buy the razors which they fit 
>
>
> Yeah, I mean the US is on the brink of a huge High Def revolution,
> what better time to grab the hardware market? Buy a new sony HD tv
> and it plays your avi collection... And they could still sell the
> content on blu-ray, heck buy a blu-ray burner and download and burn..
> All they need do is give you a license to view sony content free with
> the purchase of a sony device.. That would be enough to motivate me
> to buy some new hardware and it would promote sony content at the
> same time.
>
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>> Right. I hope the media industry has learned from history.
>
>
> What they appear to have learned is that this is a great time to get
> custom laws written to their specifications.. 
>
> Geo.
>
>

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