But, what if everybody can qualify as a disc publisher just by handing over a disc?
That's what AACS is supposed to prevent. BD players are supposed to require BDMV discs to use AACS, and the AACS license imposes a fee per title plus other requirements that likely include not doing this very thing.
But unfortunately, "most sane countries" place onerous requirements on people born in not-sane countries who wish to live and work there.
NO. Sony v. Universal (and subsequent rulings) have made it clear, it does not matter where a backup comes from, as long as you dont share it.
Where do you get that? I see UMG v. MP3.com which decided exactly the opposite. The backup has to be made by you from a genuine copy, not transmitted by someone else through the Internet.
that are inserted by their owners
Not necessarily, because not everybody lives alone. Anybody in your household with the opportunity to insert a disc can attempt to exploit a vulnerability like this. I imagine that most people do not regularly disconnect their BD players and keep them under lock and key.
If you live too far from the nearest CMTS or DSLAM to get a cable or DSL connection, how much streaming are you going to do with the 10 GB per month that a wireless ISP allows you?
All those useless apps have vastly superior equivalents on other platforms.
Which is fine so long as you already own a device of one of these "other platforms" in your living room. "Smart" TVs and "smart" BD players are convenient for people who happen not to, such as households with one PC that is in another room.
if everyone [took a percent of gross] it would be unfeasible.
Everyone does take a percent of gross: Google on Google Play Store, Amazon on Amazon Appstore, Apple on App Store, Nintendo on eShop, Sony on PlayStation Store, and Microsoft as I mentioned above. The market for physical goods is little different: Amazon takes a commission of sellers' revenue on Amazon.com, and eBay and PayPal take final value fees.
People still use physical media? What is this 2005?
The Internet connections available in some geographic areas are effectively stuck in 2005.
That's a few maya licenses
As O-Zone asked in the Numa Numa song, "Maya who?" If a studio is trying to grow organically from a hobby into a business, is there a reason it can't just use Blender to create assets for Unreal Engine?
The fact is Game development is rapidly moving into the hobby space much like home studios did to music and youtube is doing to TV.
Except there's a difference. Anyone can burn hobby music to a CD-R and play it in a stereo. Anyone can burn hobby video to a DVD+R and play it in any brand of DVD player. The game market is qualitatively different. The major consoles lock out hobby games, and PCs are uncommon in the living room. Some of this can be traced to certain bad decisions made by the North American video game industry in the first half of the 1980s.
What if Microsoft said pay us 5% of your gross income goes to us because you use our operating system
Microsoft takes a lot more than that for Xbox Live Marketplace (for Xbox 360 and Xbox One), Windows Phone Store, and Windows Store (for Windows 8 and Windows RT).
Everyone is going to want Google+'s stream in their face!
But how will it compare to Will Wright's Pee?
Yo dawg, I heard you like Cobol Engineering, so I put some COBOL in your Cobol so you can dream while you dream.
That or you could just not go and watch the movie, just like I did not watched The Hobbit, but loved the LotR. You can always NOT watch the movie.
Unless people start to say "turn in your geek card" for not getting references to movies you haven't seen.
That or it's a way for three-letter government agencies to spy on users of detachable laptop computers, using a built-in hardwired SIM card even when the user thinks the cellular radio is off.
What is research but a blind date with knowledge? -- Will Harvey
