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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
First, apart from the other restrictions on the use of the material there is the control of the non-computer savvy customers usage by having to buy Amazon's own Kindle, and furthermore they put barriers against use of that for media from other media suppliers. Perhaps you would similarly hold the view that Sony should only allow the movies they hold rights to be only played on Sony TVs, assuming Sony provided a direct supply channel of some sort to those, and that Sony TVs should not play material from other suppliers?
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Your premise is false. You don't have to buy anything to read Kindle books; all you actually need is a device with a web browser, although the experience is more enjoyable if you have a device on which you can install a reading app.
I would note that Sony do indeed appear to believe that, if I buy a PlayStation game, it's reasonable that I can only play it on a Sony PlayStation.
All this, though, seems somewhat irrelevant to what we're debating here, which is an encryption standard for video streaming on HTML5 - an open standard which anyone will be free to implement, and which does not restrict the viewer to any choice of hardware or software.
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How much crasser and ruder could you be about potential customers? I am sorry but I can only assume that one who seems to have such a poor opinion of fellow beings by calling them as "scum" is not worth conversing with.
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I make no apology for considering that the people I see stealing what I've put so much work into creating are somewhat more crass and rude than I am for regarding them unfavourably for doing so.