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Re: Cryptography Research wants piracy speed bump on HD DVDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Wed Jan 5 11:38:07 2005
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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, iang@systemics.com
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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:08:05 +1300
Ian G <iang@systemics.com> writes:
>To add a postscript to that, yesterday's LAWgram
>reported that $10 DVD *players* are now selling
>in the US.
I heard from a friend of mine who works for an organisation that deals with
China a fair bit that the DVD licensing costs make up the majority of the
cost of cheapie DVD players. They have people who fly over there, buy a
NZ$35 (= ~US$20) player to use for a week while they're working there, and
then throw it away when they leave. These are made so cheap because the
manufacturers there aren't paying the DVD licensing costs.
Peter.
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