by Eric: "I don't doubt that Sony could send an update that would disable a certain feature in your television...It equates to CE manufacturers buckling under the pressures of legal threats from Communist Hollywood & the RIAA."
Man, I'd hate to buy a $2000 TV because of the features it had, then come home 2 months later and find out half of those features are gone because the manufacturer was pressured by Hollywood/RIAA/MPAA. And that is exactly (except change "TV" with MP3 player, and cut the $2000 by a factor of 5-10) what happened with the Creative MP3 player in the link Taz gave.
I say: there should be no removal or "addition" of features to the objects I own without my approval. And if some law changes or something that forces manufacturers to remove certain features, I should be compensated for no longer getting a feature I payed for.
Preferrably, that compensation should come from the MPAA/RIAA idiots that pay their 'stars' in millions and then claim they have to fire their poor set-builders and janitors because piracy made their profits shrink. If you want my sympathy, at least ask Tom Cruise to accept payment more in line with, oh, I don't know, a freaking world-class brain surgeon, before you tell me that you "had" to fire 10 employees making $40,000 a year because a few people bootlegged your movies.
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David @ Oct 17th 2006 7:58PM
by Eric: "I don't doubt that Sony could send an update that would disable a certain feature in your television...It equates to CE manufacturers buckling under the pressures of legal threats from Communist Hollywood & the RIAA."
Man, I'd hate to buy a $2000 TV because of the features it had, then come home 2 months later and find out half of those features are gone because the manufacturer was pressured by Hollywood/RIAA/MPAA. And that is exactly (except change "TV" with MP3 player, and cut the $2000 by a factor of 5-10) what happened with the Creative MP3 player in the link Taz gave.
I say: there should be no removal or "addition" of features to the objects I own without my approval. And if some law changes or something that forces manufacturers to remove certain features, I should be compensated for no longer getting a feature I payed for.
Preferrably, that compensation should come from the MPAA/RIAA idiots that pay their 'stars' in millions and then claim they have to fire their poor set-builders and janitors because piracy made their profits shrink. If you want my sympathy, at least ask Tom Cruise to accept payment more in line with, oh, I don't know, a freaking world-class brain surgeon, before you tell me that you "had" to fire 10 employees making $40,000 a year because a few people bootlegged your movies.