[Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant

Chris Samuel csamuel at vpac.org
Wed Jul 18 18:13:03 PDT 2007


On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Jim Lux wrote:

> Now, clearly, these numbers are used as marketing stuff for filmed
> entertainment, so they're going to try and show as much film and as
> little non-film as possible.

<tinfoil_hat>

They will also use them to compare to the amount of paid entertainment and, 
subtracting the latter from the former, come up with the amount of P1rAte 
entertainment to try and further justify existing (and future) DRM..

</tinfoil_hat>

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