Comment Re:Philips - concerned about the evolution here (Score 1) 695
There's a part of the legal discalimer:
YOU WILL NOT HOLD US OR OUR , AS APPLICABLE, RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM YOU USING THE PLAYER OR CONTENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY INFECTIONS OR CONTAMINATIONS OF YOUR COMPUTER OR DAMAGE TO ANY SOFTWARE OR SYSTEMS YOU USE TO ACCESS THE SAME THAT MAY RESULT FROM THAT USE.
Isn't this very similar to the attachment to the USA bill (or whatever - not a US citizen myself) that someone attempted to sneak through? Is anyone else worried that if enough of the paper aggreements get put on CD's the publics expectation will be to have to put up with them?
At that point they kinda become law by proxy, in the same way that employees can't expect to have privacy at work anymore, because spying on you at your desk is standard practice. So sure it's slower, but they've got time, they just have to wait, have a mock case every few years and wait for a judge to agree that the public can't expect their CD's (or music cubes or whatever) to not retaliate if you try and make a copy. By retaliate I mean a quick fdisk and emailing the authorities to come kick down your door cause you're doing something naughty.
It's a particularly paranoid thought, but so far it seems to be the large corporations that are on the winning side.
Tim.
Waiting for his anti fdisk CD-reader from India...
YOU WILL NOT HOLD US OR OUR , AS APPLICABLE, RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM YOU USING THE PLAYER OR CONTENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY INFECTIONS OR CONTAMINATIONS OF YOUR COMPUTER OR DAMAGE TO ANY SOFTWARE OR SYSTEMS YOU USE TO ACCESS THE SAME THAT MAY RESULT FROM THAT USE.
Isn't this very similar to the attachment to the USA bill (or whatever - not a US citizen myself) that someone attempted to sneak through? Is anyone else worried that if enough of the paper aggreements get put on CD's the publics expectation will be to have to put up with them?
At that point they kinda become law by proxy, in the same way that employees can't expect to have privacy at work anymore, because spying on you at your desk is standard practice. So sure it's slower, but they've got time, they just have to wait, have a mock case every few years and wait for a judge to agree that the public can't expect their CD's (or music cubes or whatever) to not retaliate if you try and make a copy. By retaliate I mean a quick fdisk and emailing the authorities to come kick down your door cause you're doing something naughty.
It's a particularly paranoid thought, but so far it seems to be the large corporations that are on the winning side.
Tim.
Waiting for his anti fdisk CD-reader from India...
