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...offering consumers two incompatible formats, both formats rely on content control features which are designed to benefit Hollywood, not the consumer--much like UMD in fact, or SACD and DVD-Audio.
The risk for replicators is that consumers will say 'No' to both blue-laser formats and get hooked on the idea of downloading movies to hard drives--which is natural extension of music downloading.
Recording engineer Tony Faulkner has seen a lot of formats come and go. "These guys never learn," he says. "The more barbed wire and machine gun posts you put around paid-for entertainment, the more bona fide legitimate money-paying customers get annoyed. Hackers find the challenge irresistible and always get around...
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