Eric Sorenson said:
quoted 12 lines On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Eggy Toast wrote:> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Eggy Toast wrote:
>
>> It makes you wonder how Sony's going to do with their upcoming
>> "universal media disk," or "umd."
>
> They have a history of going for these proprietary media formats in a
> eerie totalitarian effort to get total vertical control over some chunk
> of the entertainment market -- they own the musicians via
> Sony Music, the distribution licensing through Sony Manufacturing, and
> the players through Sony Electronics. Luckily none of them have really
> taken over (Beta vs VHS, Media Stick vs Cardflash or MMC,
> Minidisc vs CD, etc) but that hasn't stopped them from trying.
Agreed. It's little wonder we haven't seen them try to build houses and
apartments to house the artists in question, forcing them to live there
and pay rent, giving even more money back to Sony ;D
derek
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