The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) alleges misuse of copyright law in case involving third-party Xbox 360 memory cards.
The digital rights and privacy advocacy group filed an amicus brief with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday. In the filing, the EFF urges the federal court to block Microsoft Corporation's attempt to thwart a competitor ... [ read the full article ]
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Corporate misuse of their customer base. Proprietary equipment sales has NEVER worked & these guys know it. Spin it all you want it doesn't change the facts.
Maintain a certain quality & keep the damned prices down; your customers will keep coming back, but bean counters don't/won't see human beings. They see numbers & all the other inhuman qualities you throw into the mix other than what it takes to creature comfort their protected butts.
I don't know how monopolies are treated in other countries, but competition is how our economy is supposed to work. Corporations are at such a point now that they have become mini socialist empires unto themselves. They won't admit it, but standing outside looking in, it most certainly seems that way. Keep the plebes even and the Czars feast in accordance.
M$ wants a monopoly on all it's products. Why not. So does Sony, Nintendo & a thousand other manufacturers of forward thinking technology. Money has bought the laws to address these situations & there doesn't seem to be a change in the system soon. One political party says less government is a solution, but another says it's the lessening of gov. that caused this very issue.
We all want entertainment, but what is the emperor to do if the people are at a point they can no longer afford it?
My point exactly! Being a professional photographer, this is another bane to my existence. Not to mention it makes the field less attainable to other would be artists & give the medium a feel of elitisism (if I could make that such a word for the moment).
Sorry but I'm just not going to worry about a producer finding that their memory card is not going to work with Xbox 360 when MS have enabled any flash drive to work with it.
I don't care.
Originally posted by Interestx: Sorry but I'm just not going to worry about a producer finding that their memory card is not going to work with Xbox 360 when MS have enabled any flash drive to work with it.
I don't care.
That's part of the problem. 1. M$ "isn't" going to enable all the flash cards to work in all flash drives so I'm not exactly sure where you're comment arises from. Your under a misconception if you believe that or did you miss what this article was about?
2.the producer of another memory card doesn't care if you try to use their memory card in another product. They're hoping you do. That way, when the device trashes it, they can either sue you for DRM violations or you pay for 2 more bloatedly priced cards. One for their card to go in their proprietary device and the other for that proprietary device.
That's why we don't like MONOPOLIES & that's why they are illegal. But they STILL try to exist.
That or I'm getting misdirected on forum comments again...
