Today the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Australia both ran an article about the forthcoming high definition DVDs and covered my call for a boycott. Have a look: Battlelines Drawn Over Next Gen DVDs.
Thanks to those generous Aussies who visited the site and donated a few dollars to keep the boycott ad campaign going!
Soon the world will know the plans of the AACS. Australia first, and I am a spanish consumer association member and I’ll refer this site. Disney is in, Apple not? This I don´t understand being Steve his owner.
What side Apple is on?
People begin to fed up of such changes, with the simple was before with VHS!
I’ve been for one week with problems with my internet provider, they do what they want! Will be AACS the next step? I hope no. 15 minutes every day waiting for they pick up! Goverment say they’re going to finish with this but it makes me laugh. Liars! For when a boycott for this…. It’s a joke
Regards, if my consumer association say something about this I’ll put a link.
I love the romantic idea that this boycott will succeed and the new DVDs will be as exploitable as CDs are today. Realism, however, points to the fact that these discs will push everyone further into a 1984 version of the future. The questions of ownership and freedom are likely to be forgotten by the masses so that they can play Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle on needlessly big screens.
Roman – I know it’s an uphill battle. My hope is that I can help a few people make informed decisions. Mike
Look, in Spain soccer is like a religion. Well, the soccer providers put the price of the matches to 12 euros (16 dollars), 12 euros a match!!! here is very expensive, really only the pubs buy this. Most of people see it taking something in the bars.
But they are losing money and decided to reduce prices to 8 euros. They still are losing money. What I mean is people has a limit. If I pay for example 50 euros/to my cable provider haven´t I right to record a movie? A movie that later they will broadcast a thousand times! It´s like the cd prices, when internet and dvd recorders didn´t arrive to us, they charge $20 by CD, now it is proved it was an armed robbery, because they have reduced prices and I see this huge mansions the artist have got (MTV program I don´t remember its name).
All is fraud, and I support Mike.