UMD Not Over Yet Says Sony Boss

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DoctorDee
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Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:13
Rustman wrote:
The last time I checked I wasn't in any corporations pocket, but I'm damn sure in the UK at least, there is no fair use for recorded media.

There isn't.

But just because something isn't enshrined in law doesn't mean it's wrong, or that it should not be legally protected.

And just because something is illegal, doesn't (necessarily) make it wrong.

Now with the DMCA protecting any copy-protected media (and therefore pretty much every piece of entertainment), any circumvention is a violation of the copyright and therefore punishable by death.

There is no moral imperative to obey bad laws. If there was, we'd still be living in fealty.

The DMCA is just big business seeing and jumping on an opportunity to screw is for larger revenues.

The fair use argument doesn't really exist.

Of course, the ARGUMENT exists. DMCA, RIAA, MPAA they can all say what they like. It is down to us as consumers to make it clear what WE believe to be fair.

What does exist however is my middle digit and since the big five started suing every John and Jane Doe into the ground, a healthy and empowering disrespect for their "property".

Power to you and your digitus medius.

Oh, and for the record, UMD is over. It never started.

It remains a perfectly successful video game format. As a "universal media" format though - it's an unmitigated washout.

Just like MD before it.

I think overall, Sony will have seen a profit on MD. It was huge in Asia, and did "fair" in Europe.
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