Is the EU listening to me?
Geez. I just get done talking about the rumors that we can’t have a dual-format HD/Blu-ray player because of limitations in their licensing and here comes the EU asking questions from both groups to see if the limitation is true. Maybe my caveat from the Netflix is confused article may become a reality sooner than later, but I still don’t change my quote.
From the article:
“We have sent a letter earlier this month to the makers of HD DVD and Blu-ray to request information about licensing,” a Commission spokesman said, declining to give any further information.
So now the EU has slapped Microsoft with record fines and now is sniffing around the Blu-Ray/HD licensing.
Looks like the US needs to get some balls and start standing up for the consumer because the EU sure seems to be doing it for us right now.
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July 27th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
On the flip side of that argument, where is great innovation coming from?
Is it coming from the socialist bureaucracy of Paris, or the American R&D labs of google?
July 31st, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Well, I have news for you, socialism has been dead and buried for more than 20 years in France, as in most ot the rest of Europe. Even the so-called french socialist party is a bunch of corporatist fascists like everywhere else.
At least some of EU’s (not France, EU) parliamentaries are taking the defense of consumer rights, something that has long been forgotten in corporatist America.
As for your so-called socialist bureaucracy of Paris, they are passing copyright laws that make the ones voted in the US look tame.