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James Robertson

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Stupidity on Parade Posted: Feb 21, 2006 6:16 AM
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Well, it looks like MPAA members don't want to let RIAA members get too far in front of them, stupidity wise. This last weekend, a bunch of them sued Samsung over a DVD player that's been discontinued since 2004:

Over the weekend, Bloomberg news reported Walt Disney, Time Warner and three other major film makers filed the lawsuit against Samsung in U.S. court.

They claimed that Samsung’s DVD players allowed consumers to avoid encryption features that prevent unauthorized duplication and demanded a recall of all the problematic products, Bloomberg said.

The Motion Picture Association of America estimates that the movie industry lost $5.4 billion last year due to piracy.

So their solution is to make the public more aware of a player that they might be able to buy on EBay? I sure hope that they aren't paying their lawyers too much for this one; it has "too clever by half" written all over it.

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