Tech Cozying Up To Hollywood

Predictions

from the consumers?-what-consumers? dept

Following up on the article posted earlier today about Microsoft and HP’s PC with copy protection is a Chicago Tribune article talking about all the various tech company efforts to appease Hollywood with copy protection schemes. As per usual, no one seems to care much about the rights or desires of the folks that made these companies possible: the consumers who purchase their products. The article also includes a couple of quotes to think about. The first is from our favorite person, Jack Valenti, saying, “I was looking at their new innovation, and I was very much impressed” in talking about his new “friends” at Microsoft. The second is from Joe Kraus who’s fighting for consumer rights at DigitalConsumer.org, saying, “I don’t think Microsoft wants a world where digital rights management technology controlled by Hollywood essentially rules the roost. But if they sense that’s the way the wind is blowing, of course they are going to be the No. 1 vendor.” It’s a good summary of how Microsoft thinks.