I you feel you're getting screwed, then don't buy the devices. Don't buy the content. No-one is forcing you to partake. --------- I won't be buying Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, that's for sure. However, it's hard to avoid CD and DVD for most tasks these days. It's too entrenched. But this isn't about what I buy, it's about *the fact that the majors already have too much power, and it's not about breaking even* or anything related to that.
And why do we have to pay? Because people have abused the system - at least media companies see it that way. -------- The media companies, like most companies, will do what they can get away with, and they have been doing so for eternity. Please don't even get into an argument about profit/loss because the only thing they need to worry about is producing content worth purchasing. None of them are searching the couch for loose change. They have far more political and financial power than should be allowed. We don't have to participate, of course. At least not in these new standards. While we still have a choice. It's actually quite frightening how much power they will have if the new connections become standard, let alone HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
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I you feel you're getting screwed, then don't buy the devices. Don't buy the content. No-one is forcing you to partake.
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I won't be buying Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, that's for sure. However, it's hard to avoid CD and DVD for most tasks these days. It's too entrenched. But this isn't about what I buy, it's about *the fact that the majors already have too much power, and it's not about breaking even* or anything related to that.
And why do we have to pay? Because people have abused the system - at least media companies see it that way.
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The media companies, like most companies, will do what they can get away with, and they have been doing so for eternity. Please don't even get into an argument about profit/loss because the only thing they need to worry about is producing content worth purchasing. None of them are searching the couch for loose change. They have far more political and financial power than should be allowed. We don't have to participate, of course. At least not in these new standards. While we still have a choice. It's actually quite frightening how much power they will have if the new connections become standard, let alone HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.