Re: [dvd-discuss] COMDEX speech

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My philosophy is rusty...what's the reference to Santayana...other than the 
fact than Anita Loos was one of his favorite authors, and she read his works 
I'm not as familiar with Santayana I as might be. I guess I read too much Kant, 
Berkeley, Rand, Nietzche, Sartre.


On 23 Nov 2002 at 10:19, D. C. Sessions wrote:

Subject:        	Re: [dvd-discuss] COMDEX speech
From:           	"D. C. Sessions" <dvd@lumbercartel.com>
To:             	DVD-Discuss <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
Date sent:      	23 Nov 2002 10:19:54 -0700
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> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 22:57, Joshua Stratton wrote:
> 
> > Honestly, I think that the various publisher's threats of leaving the 
> > market are bluff. There's just too much money to be made still. Tell them to
> > use legal remedies exclusively of self help, and then disincentivize self help
> > further, and I bet they'll just keep on publishing.
> 
> Let's all remember DIVX -- the original Circuit City version.
> The Content Cartel swore that they would never let any of their
> precious treasure show up in DVD unless their DRM requirements
> were met, and after negotiation DIVX was the least they would
> settle for.
> 
> Circuit City wanted to sell DVD players, and without DVDs to
> play that wasn't going to happen.  So Circuit City dropped some
> *very* major change to kickstart the process (I worked with
> some of the people who did the cryptography silicon.)
> Unfortunately for Circuit City, the Content Cartel was more
> attracted by the potential sales of non-DIVX systems and
> contrary to their promises, there was actuall more content
> available for non-DIVX players than for DIVX players.
> 
> Oops.
> 
> Again, let's not get on the wrong side of Professor Santayana.
> 
> -- 
> | It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance  |
> |  It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance  |
> |   It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give     |
> |    and the soul afraid of dyin' that never learns to live     |
> +------------- D. C. Sessions <dcs@lumbercartel.com> -----------+
>