On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, houghi wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:32:39PM +0200, Daniel Bertolo wrote:
The main problem is that I as a costumer can not get LinDVD nor PowerDVD as they only sell their product to OEMs. If they would sell it, Novell would not have to do anything.
That is indeed the problem. If they would offer a binary for sale (for a reasonable price) that would be great.
What would be even better if they just offer it for free. They are in the business of selling DVD's, not software, or so would one think. Instead they try to rip us customers of several times. 1 time for the DVD 1 time for the player 1 time for the fact you are not allowed to make copies 1 time for the extra tax on blank CD's and DVD's (here in Belgium) </rant>
You mix up things that are a little different: "They" are the player vendors, Intervideo and Cyberlink. They can only rip us by charging money for the player software. The others are different companies (Dolby, MPEGLA, DVD CCA (the guys who make CSS), MPAA (Hollywood studios)). With each player copy Cyberlink and Intervideo sell or bundle they also need to pay royalties tho those other organisations/companies. So different companies and organizations together rip us several times. The player manufacturers are not the evil ones. -- Dr. Martin Sommer Product Manager Consumer Products SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, D-90409 Nürnberg Phone: +49 (0) 911 740 530 Fax: +49 (0) 911 740 53 575 Email: martin.sommer@suse.com ----------------------------------------------------------